Using SASGRAPH Software Fonts

Using SAS/GRAPH Software Fonts

Rendering Fonts

The SAS/GRAPH software includes methods of storing rendered versions of Bitstream fonts, along with three graphics options to control how the fonts are rendered.

When your graphics output uses one of the Bitstream fonts that are provided in the SAS/GRAPH software, SAS/GRAPH must process information contained in corresponding FONT catalog entries to determine how to draw characters of the specified size and typeface. The process of calculating the character shapes and sizes is known as rendering the font. Bitstream fonts that are available in the SAS/GRAPH software include the Century, Swiss, and Zapf families.

The SAS/GRAPH software can store rendered versions of the Bitstream fonts in memory or in special SAS files. Using these rendered versions of the fonts can provide a speed improvement when characters of the same size and style are used again during the SAS session. The SAS/GRAPH software can read the rendered version of the characters from memory or from the rendered font file rather than having to perform the rendering calculations again each time the characters are used. If you store the rendered fonts in files in a permanent SAS data set, the SAS/GRAPH software can use the rendered font files again in subsequent SAS sessions.

Note: Because the rendered font files use a special utility member type, they do not appear in the list of library members that is displayed when you issue a DIRECTORY command for the SAS data library in which the font files are stored.

You control whether and how rendered versions of fonts are stored using the FONTRES=, RENDER=, and RENDERLIB= graphics options. See Chapter 8, Graphics Options and Device Parameters Dictionary, on page 261 for details.

Font Lists

The fonts available with theSAS/GRAPH software are listed in the following tables.

All of the software fonts are stored in the catalog SASHELP.FONTS. For many fonts, the last letter or letters of the font name indicates weight or spacing of the font:

B	bold (thicker)
E	empty (outline) versions of their counterparts
I	italic ( slanted )
L	light (thin)
U	uniformly spaced versions of their counterparts; most of the SAS/GRAPH fonts that do not end in U are proportionately spaced ; however, the Kanji fonts are always uniform.
X	expanded (wider characters and extra space between characters).

CAUTION:

• Empty and uniform versions of fonts cannot be used if you have deleted their filled or proportionally spaced counterparts.

If the label of a font in SASHELP.FONTS is "Depends on," it is possible to delete it. However, empty and uniform versions of fonts are generated from their regular, bold, or italic counterparts. Therefore, if you delete any of these fonts, you cannot use the uniform or empty version of that font. For example, you must have the CENTB (Century Bold) font in order to use the CENTBE (Century Bold Empty) font.

Type Style		Font Name	Type Sample	Uniform Font
Brush		BRUSH
Century
	Bold	CENTB		CENTBU
	Bold Empty	CENTBE
	Bold Italic	CENTBI		CENTBIU
	Bold Italic Empty	CENTBIE
	Expanded	CENTX		CENTXU
	Expanded Empty	CENTXE
	Expanded Italic	CENTXI		CENTXIU
	Expanded Italic Empty	CENTXIE
German		GERMAN		GERMANU
German Italic		GITALIC		GITALICU
Hershey
	Sans Serif	SIMPLEX		SIMPLEXU
	Sans Serif Bold	DUPLEX		DUPLEXU
	Serif	COMPLEX		COMPLEXU
	Serif Bold	TRIPLEX		TRIPLEXU
	Serif Bold Italic	TITALIC		TITALICU
	Serif Italic	ITALIC		ITALICU
Old English		OLDENG		OLDENGU
Script		SCRIPT
Cscript		CSCRIPT
Swiss		SWISS		SWISSU
	Empty	SWISSE
	Bold	SWISSB		SWISSBU
	Bold Empty	SWISSBE
	Bold Italic	SWISSBI		SWISSBIU

Figure 5.1: Roman Alphabet Text Fonts

Type Style		Font Name	Type Sample	Uniform Font
	Bold Italic Empty	SWISSBIE
	Expanded	SWISSX		SWISSXU
	Expanded Empty	SWISSXE
	Expanded Bold	SWISSXB		SWISSXBU
	Expanded Bold Empty	SWISSXBE
	Italic	SWISSI		SWISSIU
	Italic Empty	SWISSIE
	Light	SWISSL		SWISSLU
	Light Empty	SWISSLE
Zapf		ZAPF		ZAPFU
	Empty	ZAPFE
	Bold	ZAPFB		ZAPFBU
	Bold Empty	ZAPFBE
	Bold Italic	ZAPFBI		ZAPFBIU
	Bold Italic Empty	ZAPFBIE
	Italic	ZAPFI		ZAPFIU
	Italic Empty	ZAPFIE

Figure 5.2: Roman Alphabet Text Fonts “ continued

Table 5.1: Non-Roman Alphabet Fonts

Type Style	Font Name	Uniform Font Name
Arabic	ARABIC
Arabic Empty	ARABICE
Cyrillic	CYRILLIC	CYRILLIU
David	DAVID
Davidb	DAVIDB
Fsong	FSONG	FSONGU
Greek	GREEK	GREEKU
Greek (serif)	CGREEK	CGREEKU
Hebrew	HEBREW
Hebrew	NHEBREW [*]
Hebrewb	HEBREWB
Hebrew Empty	HEBREWE
Hei	HEI	HEIU
Hiragana	HIRA
Hiragana	NHIRA [*]
Kanji	KANJI
Kanji	KANSJIS
Kanji Subset
Kanji 1	KAN1
Kanji 2	KAN2
Kanji 3	KAN3
Kanji 4	KAN4
Kanji 5	KAN5
Kanji 6	KAN6
Kanji 7	KAN7
Kanji 8	KAN8
Katakana	KATA
Katakana	NKATA [*]
Mincho	MINCHO	MINCHOE
[*] This font requires a special keyboard and is host-dependent. If you are not equipped to use this font, use the host-independent version listed directly above.

Table 5.2: Symbol Fonts

Type Style	Font Name	Uniform Font Name
Cartographic	CARTOG	CARTOGU
Electronic	ELECTRON	ELECTROU
Marker	MARKER
Marker	MARKERE
Empty	[*]
Math	MATH	MATHU
Music	MUSIC	MUSICU
Special	SPECIAL	SPECIALU
Weather	WEATHER	WEATHERU
[*] MARKERE is not displayed in the figures.

Figure 5.3: Cartographic Font

Figure 5.4: Electronic Font

Note: Figure 5.5 on page 87 shows the MARKER font. The MARKERE font produces the same symbols but in empty (outline) form.

Figure 5.5: Marker Font

Figure 5.6: Math Font

Figure 5.7: Music Font

Figure 5.8: Special Font

Figure 5.9: Weather Font