Hi:
PROC PRINTTO creates an ASCII text file. Any font settings belong to the viewer you use when you open the text file. Therefore, SAS does not have any control over the font of the text in the ASCII text file.
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ASCII text file A file which consists of a series of lines terminated by a hard carriage return and which contains no formatting information and can thus be read by any text editor. Most word processors have a mode for reading and writing ASCII text files, i.e. for suppressing the formatting information, page layout, page breaks, typeface attributes, etc. which they normally include in the text files they create."
from:
http://www.uni-due.de/CP/key_terms.htm
I don't really understand exactly what you want or need to do. However, in my experience, most folks who email SAS results to other people use the Output Delivery System. If you create an RTF or PDF or HTML file, then the output will contain formatting instructions such as a font specification. In addition, if you sent a PDF file, the PDF file would be "printer-ready".
ODS uses the same "sandwich" technique as PROC PRINTTO. For example, if you wanted to create a PDF file for mailing, you could do this:
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ODS PDF file='c:\temp\mailthis.pdf';
proc print data=sashelp.class;
run;
ODS PDF CLOSE;
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ODS PDF uses either Helvetica or Times New Roman in SAS 9.1.3, which are fonts available on most computer systems. Once the PDF file is created, you can then mail the file. Similar syntax could be used for ODS RTF or ODS HTML output results.
cynthia