Using SAS/GRAPH Fonts

The SIMULATE Font

In some cases, the device's device-resident font cannot be used and the SIMULATE font is used instead. The SIMULATE font is a SAS/GRAPH font that simulates the device's resident characters by allowing the same amount of space for the text that the device-resident characters use. The SIMULATE font is used whenever the default device-resident font is unavailable, including the following situations:

FONT=NONE or FONT=HWxxxnnn or no font is specified, and one of the following conditions or sets of conditions is also met:
- GOPTIONS NOCHARACTERS is specified.
- The device driver does not support device-resident text.
- You request a device-resident font for a different device.
- You specify an angle or rotation for the characters that the device does not support.
- The device does not have a scalable font (characters can be generated only in the proportions specified with the font), and one of the following conditions is also met:
  - The values of the HPOS= and VPOS= graphics options do not match the values displayed in the LCOLS or PCOLS field or the LROWS or PROWS field in the Detail window of the device entry.
  - The HSIZE= or VSIZE= graphics option is set to values that are not the default.
  - You replay a graph in a template that is not the same size as the full size of the graphics output area, or you use a device driver other than the one you used to create the graph.
  - The target device and the display device have different values for the HPOS= and VPOS= graphics options.
  - You use any height specification, including the HEIGHT=, HTEXT=, HTITLE=, and HBY= graphics options, that is not equal to 1.

You should never delete the SIMULATE font from the fonts catalog.

Note: You can change the font that is used as the SIMULATE font with the SIMFONT= graphics option. If you use the SIMFONT= option, it is better to specify a uniform font. Do not specify a device-resident font as a substitute for SIMULATE. See SIMFONT for more information on the SIMFONT= option. [cautionend]

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