topic setting the sas font size in File/PrintSetup in SAS Procedures

setting the sas font size in File/PrintSetup

mediaeval — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:07:49 GMT

I’m having a problem with printing from the output window. I’ve set the SAS font to 8, and these settings have been saved. However, when I open up SAS, and proc print something to the SAS Output window, it uses the original SAS font of 10. Each time I open SAS, I have to click on File/Print Setup/OK to get it to initialise itself to 8. I don’t need to go into the font size to set it to 8, because it remembers the setting – it just doesn’t apply it. How can I fix this? It’s very frustrating.

setting the sas font size in File/PrintSetup

art297 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:10:22 GMT

Under your preferences do you have "save settings on exit" checked off?

setting the sas font size in File/PrintSetup

mediaeval — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:52:42 GMT

yes, this is not the problem.

setting the sas font size in File/PrintSetup

art297 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:56:05 GMT

Was worth a try! Next, have you tried setting it in your config file? Take a look at: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/lrdict/64316/HTML/default/viewer.htm#lr-sysop-sysprintfont.htm

setting the sas font size in File/PrintSetup

mediaeval — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:05:33 GMT

This worked - thank you! I put the following line into my autoexec.sas file:

options sysprintfont=("SAS Monospacetimes" 8);

setting the sas font size in File/PrintSetup

mediaeval — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:06:58 GMT

No wait - this is what I used!

options sysprintfont=("SAS Monospace" 8);