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That depends on which set of "drivers" you are using. The distinction between PC host drivers and SAS drivers is very important. Before you read the remainder of this topic, see FAQ 3336 about the PRINTER= option to determine which drivers you are using.

PC host drivers

You can use any Windows font. That is, the FONT= or FONT_FACE= in the style can use any of the font names that you see in the Font window in a typical Windows application, such as Word or Outlook. For example,

    font= ("Arial Narrow",10pt, Italic)
    font_face="Bookman Old Style"

This is the easiest way to access proprietary fonts like the popular TrueType fonts. However, remember that with the PC host drivers you can't use the SAS, PS, POSTSCRIPT, PDF, PDFMARK, or PCL options.

SAS drivers

In older versions of SAS 8, there was a very limited set of fonts available. And for maximum portability of your PostScript or PDF file you might want to stick to this list, which is: Courier, Times, Helvetica. But starting in SAS 8.2, there is a very large list available to the ODS (and Universal Printer) drivers for PostScript and PDF. Note that if you choose a font that your printer and/or recipient's computer doesn't have, you will get odd results.

To see all of the fonts available, in SAS select Solutions -> Accessories -> Registry Editor. Look in CORE -> PRINTING -> PSL -> FONTS.

For the nonstandard fonts, SAS embeds the font metrics but not the actual glyphs; for the standard fonts (Courier, Times, Helvetica, Symbol), SAS embeds neither. This means that if you use nonstandard fonts, your recipient won't see exactly what you see if he doesn't have those fonts. This is unlikely because the fonts are supplied with all PDF/PostScript viewers and printers, so that shouldn't be a problem in practice.

As noted above, the SAS drivers support an extensive list of predefined fonts. Under very rare circumstances, a few users have found the need for additional fonts. By following a long, difficult, and tricky method (see FAQ 4217), these customers have installed other font metrics for use with the SAS drivers. Again, the need for this is rare and the method is tedious.

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