Starting in SAS^® 9.2, SAS ships a set of fonts and sets the system option FONTEMBEDDING by default. In a PDF file created with ODS, a subset of the fonts are embedded, meaning that only the characters (glyphs) used in the PDF file, and therefore not every glyph available for the font, is stored in the PDF file. The SAS fonts are discussed in detail here: New Fonts for SAS 9.2

The fonts available in the ODS PDF destination are stored in the SAS registry. You can see the currently registered fonts by running the following code:

proc registry startat="\CORE\PRINTING\FREETYPE\FONTS" list;
run;

The sample code on the Full Code tab demonstrates how to update the SAS Registry with PROC FONTREG and embed the Verdana font in your ODS PDF output file by using a style that references the Verdana font. The .ttf files must be available on your system, and in Windows operating environments, might be in a location other than the default system font directory (%sysget(systemroot)\fonts).

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  /* Load Verdana fonts: bold, italic, etc. to the  
     SAS Registry from their location on the system.
     The USESASHELP option can be specified by the SAS 
     administrator to update the registry in the SASHELP
     library for everyone who accesses that library .   */ 
  proc fontreg mode=add; * usesashelp;
    fontfile  "%sysget(systemroot)\fonts\verdana.ttf"
              "%sysget(systemroot)\fonts\verdanab.ttf"
              "%sysget(systemroot)\fonts\verdanaz.ttf"
              "%sysget(systemroot)\fonts\verdanai.ttf";

  run;

  /* change all possible fonts used to VERDANA */

   proc template;
    define style styles.verdana;
      parent=styles.printer; /* Use styles.pearl in SAS 9.4 and higher */
        class Fonts /
           'BatchFixedFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)
           'TitleFont2' = ("Verdana",10pt)
           'TitleFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)
           'StrongFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)
           'EmphasisFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)
           'FixedEmphasisFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)
           'FixedStrongFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)
           'FixedHeadingFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)
           'FixedFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)
           'headingEmphasisFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)
           'headingFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)
           'docFont' = ("Verdana",10pt);
         class Graphfonts /                                  
           'GraphDataFont' = ("Verdana",7pt)                         
           'GraphUnicodeFont' = ("Verdana",9pt)                       
           'GraphValueFont' = ("Verdana",9pt)                        
           'GraphLabelFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)                       
           'GraphFootnoteFont' = ("Verdana",10pt)                    
           'GraphTitleFont' = ("Verdana",11pt,bold)                  
           'GraphAnnoFont' = ("Verdana",10pt); 
     end;
  run;

  ods pdf file="verdana.pdf" style=styles.verdana notoc;

  proc print data=sashelp.cars;
    where cylinders lt 4;
    title "This file will embed the Verdana fonts";
  run;
  proc sgplot data=sashelp.cars;
    hbox cylinders / category=origin;
  run;

  ods pdf close;