Usage Note 11001: Viewing PDF files with Adobe Reader 6.0 may display strange characters
If you use ADOBE Reader Version 6.0 to view PDF files created with SAS
8.2 and earlier, strange characters may be displayed.
This will happen if you are generating output which uses a fixed font
such as Courier. Batch procedures such as CALENDAR, CHART, COMPARE,
FORMAT, PLOT, TIMEPLOT, and the DATA _null_ (with FILE PRINT) generate
output using the Courier font by default.
In order to avoid this problem, apply the hotfix linked to below, or
distill the output to the Acrobat Distiller, upgrade to SAS 9 or later,
or view the PDF file with a reader prior to 6.0.
The sample below shows how to distill a file.
ods printer printer="Acrobat Distiller" file="c:\temp.pdf";
data _null_;
set sashelp.class;
file print;
put age sex height weight;
run;
ods printer close;
A Technical Support hot fix for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) for this
issue is available at:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_sbcs_prod_list.html#011001
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| Solaris | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| OpenVMS VAX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| IRIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| z/OS | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| Linux | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| CMS | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| HP-UX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| OS/2 | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
| Tru64 UNIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | 9 |
| AIX | 8.2 TS2M0 | |
*
For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Type: | Usage Note |
| Priority: | |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> ODS (Output Delivery System)
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| Date Modified: | 2004-09-20 09:59:30 |
| Date Created: | 2003-10-07 10:35:06 |
