Installing "Courier New" font in the SAS Grid Server in Solaris

[siddhu1]

Hi,

For one of the requirement , I need to install Courier New font in the SAS Grid Server.
Please let us now the steps involved to install Courier New font, as the Server is Solaris platform.
Can anyone help me on this.

Kind Regards,
Sidhartha

[sandeeppajni2]

Hi @siddhu1,

You can follow the below steps.

Also, you can get answers related to fonts installation from blog: 

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2020/03/20/how-to-debug-5-common-sas-software-font-issues/

To permanently install the font (run commands in compute node):

1. Stop all SAS services

2. For evidences you can run the below command to take list of already installed fonts.

<sas install path>/SASFoundation/9.4/sas -nodms -log ~/preinstall_SASFontsList.log

proc registry startat="\CORE\PRINTING\FREETYPE\FONTS" list levels=1;
run;

3. Open the SAS session with command: <sas install path>/SASFoundation/9.4/sas -nodms -log ~/fontinstall.log

4. Run below commands (run each in new line) -  fontfile command can have multiple entries together for different courier new font ttf files

proc fontreg msglevel=verbose mode=add usesashelp;

fontfile '<sashome path>/sashome/ReportFontsforClients/9.4/courbd.ttf' '<sashome path>/sashome/ReportFontsforClients/9.4/courbi.ttf' '<sashome path>/sashome/ReportFontsforClients/9.4/cour.ttf' '<sashome path>/sashome/ReportFontsforClients/9.4/couri.ttf';

run;
endsas;

5. Then run again the below command to take evidences post the installation.

<sas install path>/SASFoundation/9.4/sas -nodms -log ~/postinstall_SASFontsList.log

proc registry startat="\CORE\PRINTING\FREETYPE\FONTS" list levels=1;
run;
endsas;

Hope this helps.