QDEVICE Procedure

Creating a GENERAL Report

The GENERAL report produces a report of general information about the specified device or printer. This information includes margin sizes, default font information, resolution, and color information.

About GENERAL Report Variables

For a description of the variables, see GENERAL Report Variables.

The following table lists the variables that you can use in a GENERAL report as well as the labels for the variables that are used either in the SAS log or the output data set. If you do not specify the VAR statement, the variables appear in the order that they appear in the table.

Variable	SAS Log Label	Output Data Set Label
NAME	Name	NAME OF DEVICE OR PRINTER
DESC	Description	DESCRIPTION OF DEVICE OR PRINTER
NAMETYPE	Type	TYPE OF DEVICE OR PRINTER
LOCATION	Device Catalog for a device Registry for a printer	LOCATION OF DEVICE OR PRINTER DEFINITION
PROTOTYPE	Prototype	PRINTER PROTOTYPE
FONT	Default Typeface	FONT TYPEFACE DEFAULT
FSTYLE	Font Style	FONT STYLE DEFAULT
FWEIGHT	Font Weight	FONT WEIGHT DEFAULT
FHEIGHT	Font Height	FONT HEIGHT DEFAULT
MAXCOLORS	Maximum Colors	MAXIMUM NUMBER OF SUPPORTED COLORS
VISUAL	Visual Color	TYPE OF VISUAL COLOR
CLRSPACE	Color Support	TYPE OF COLOR SUPPORT
DEST	Destination	OUTPUT DESTINATION DEFAULT
IOTYPE	I/O Type	TYPE OF I/O DEFAULT
FORMAT	Data Format	OUTPUT DATA FORMAT
HEIGHT	Height	HEIGHT OF OUTPUT
WIDTH	Width	WIDTH OF OUTPUT
UNITS	Units 1	UNITS FOR SIZE, MARGINS AND RESOLUTION
YPIXELS	Ypixels	VERTICAL PIXELS
XPIXELS	Xpixels	HORIZONTAL PIXELS
ROWS	Rows (vpos)	ROWS
COLS	Columns (hpos)	COLUMNS
LEFT	Left Margin	LEFT MARGIN
LMIN	Minimum Left Margin	MINIMUM LEFT MARGIN
RIGHT	Right Margin	RIGHT MARGIN
RMIN	Minimum Right Margin	MINIMUM RIGHT MARGIN
BOTTOM	Bottom Margin	BOTTOM MARGIN
BMIN	Minimum Bottom Margin	MINIMUM BOTTOM MARGIN
TOP	Top Margin	TOP MARGIN
TMIN	Minimum Top Margin	MINIMUM TOP MARGIN
HRES	XxY Resolution	HORIZONTAL PIXELS PER UNIT
VRES	XxY Resolution	VERTICAL PIXELS PER UNIT
COMPRESSION	Compression Method	COMPRESSION METHOD
EMBEDDING	Font Embedding	FONT EMBEDDING SUPPORT
1If the type of units displays with the value of a variable, such as 0 inches for the left margin, the Units label does not display in output to the SAS log.

System Options That Affect the Value of Size Variables

For universal printers, the values of the HEIGHT, WIDTH, LEFT, RIGHT, BOTTOM, TOP, LMIN, RMIN, BMIN, and TMIN variables are affected by the settings of the PAPERSIZE, LEFTMARGIN, RIGHTMARGIN, BOTTOMMARGIN, and TOPMARGIN SAS system options. The default paper size is determined by the SAS locale (which affects the default size for universal printers). For SAS/GRAPH devices, these variable values are not affected by the system option settings.

For more information, see SAS System Options: Reference.

Example: GENERAL Report

The following QDEVICE procedure creates a GENERAL report for the SVG universal printer:

proc qdevice;
   printer svg;
run;

Here is the GENERAL report in the SAS log:

134  proc qdevice;
135     printer svg;
136  run;

                 Name: SVG
          Description: Scalable Vector Graphics 1.1
                 Type: Universal Printer
             Registry: SASHELP
            Prototype: SVG 1.1
     Default Typeface: Cumberland AMT
           Font Style: Regular
          Font Weight: Normal
          Font Height: 8 points
       Maximum Colors: 16777216
         Visual Color: Direct Color
        Color Support: RGBA
          Destination: sasprt.svg
             I/O Type: DISK
          Data Format: SVG
               Height: 6.25 inches
                Width: 8.33 inches
              Ypixels: 600
              Xpixels: 800
           Rows(vpos): 50
        Columns(hpos): 114
          Left Margin: 0 inches
  Minimum Left Margin: 0 inches
         Right Margin: 0 inches
 Minimum Right Margin: 0 inches
        Bottom Margin: 0 inches
Minimum Bottom Margin: 0 inches
           Top Margin: 0 inches
   Minimum Top Margin: 0 inches
       XxY Resolution: 96x96 pixels per inch
   Compression Method: None
       Font Embedding: Option