topic Lato Font in PDF in ODS and Base Reporting

How to: Add Google Web Fonts to your ODS HTML output

ChrisHemedinger — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 19:08:11 GMT

Have you ever wanted to exert a little more control over the appearance of your ODS output -- but without requiring the user to install additional special fonts? Here's a modern HTML5-ish technique:

Blog post: Adding Google Web Fonts to your SAS reports - The SAS Dummy

Sample code:

/* These snippets copied from http://www.google.com/fonts facility    */
/* Macro for HEADTEXT option, since the value cannot exceed 256 chars */
%macro ods_html_webfont; 
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,700' 
  rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans:400,700' 
  rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
%mend; 
 
proc template; 
  define style webfont;
    /* for this example, inherit existing style elements from HTMLBLUE */
    parent=styles.htmlblue;
  style header from header /
    fontfamily="'Droid Sans', sans-serif"; 
  style data, body from _self_ /
    fontfamily="'Lato', sans-serif"; 
  class titlesandfooters /
    fontfamily="'Lato', sans-serif"; 
  end; 
run; 
 
ods html (id=wf)
   file="c:\temp\wf_test.html"(title="Web Fonts Test") 
   style=webfont 
   headtext="%ods_html_webfont"; 
title "A new look for my report"; 
proc means data=sashelp.cars;
run; 
ods html (id=wf) close;

Chris

Re: How to: Add Google Web Fonts to your ODS HTML output

HGimenez — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 18:21:02 GMT

Has anybody been able to add lato to a PDF output in ODS?

So far, I tried downloading the .ttf and executing this code

proc fontreg mode=add;
fontpath 'Z:\lato';
run;

ODS PDF FILE='c:\temp\1.pdf';

PROC REPORT
		STYLE(COLUMN)={font_face='Lato'}
		DATA=SASHELP.CLASS
		;
	RUN;

ODS PDF CLOSE;

any ideas?? Thanks a lot!!

Re: How to: Add Google Web Fonts to your ODS HTML output

ChrisHemedinger — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:20:04 GMT

@HGimenez On Windows, I suspect that you need to have the font installed. If you right-click on the ttf file, you should have the option to install it into your Windows font directory.

Then make sure that you reference the font by its proper name -- you'll see the possible names in the Fonts folder. It might be something like "Lato Regular" that you want.

Lato Font in PDF

HGimenez — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 23:12:04 GMT

Thanks a lot. The proper name seems to be "Lato Regular" (per c:\windows\fonts\lato) but still doesn't work

I changed the code to:

proc fontreg mode=add;
fontpath 'Z:\lato';
run;

ODS PDF FILE='c:\temp\1.pdf';

PROC REPORT
		STYLE(COLUMN)={font_face='Lato Regular'}
		DATA=SASHELP.CLASS
		;
	RUN;

ODS PDF CLOSE;

Any other ideas??