topic Re: ODS PDF TEXT font_weight not working with Font_face = 'Arial Unicode MS' in ODS and Base Reporting

ODS PDF TEXT font_weight not working with Font_face = 'Arial Unicode MS'

rschneider — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 18:02:52 GMT

I'm not sure if this is the correct board, but I'm using SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 to create a PDF report. All of my proc report code works great, but when I use ODS PDF Text to add some additional notes in the document the font_weight and font_style do not work with the font 'Arial Unicode MS' (which is what my company requires). It seems other fonts, but I am wondering if there a reason or a work around for why bolding/italicizing is not working with the font that I need.

Some example code for one of the lines I am trying to include:

ods pdf text="~S={font_face='Arial Unicode MS' font_size=11pt font_weight=bold textalign=center color=black} 50% Initiatives Participation Required";

Thank you!

Re: ODS PDF TEXT font_weight not working with Font_face = 'Arial Unicode MS'

ballardw — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 20:29:33 GMT

Try

'Arial Unicode MS Regular'

Fonts get picky about names

Re: ODS PDF TEXT font_weight not working with Font_face = 'Arial Unicode MS'

rschneider — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 20:50:28 GMT

Thank you for the suggestions, but unfortunately, this did not work. The output font on the pdf defaults to AlbanyAMT.

Re: ODS PDF TEXT font_weight not working with Font_face = 'Arial Unicode MS'

Cynthia_sas — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 20:51:15 GMT

Hi, another thing to try is using the newer 9.2 syntax for style overrides
ods pdf text="~{style[fontweight=bold xxx=yyy]text string}";

and if that doesn't work, then try changing the USERTEXT style element in your style template.

cynthia

Re: ODS PDF TEXT font_weight not working with Font_face = 'Arial Unicode MS'

rschneider — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:22:34 GMT

These options don't seem to work either. It seems like maybe an issue with this particular font using ods PDF, but I'm not sure.