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CHARACTERS

CHARACTERS

Specifies whether the device's hardware font is used when no font or FONT=NONE is specified in a SAS statement.

Used in: GOPTIONS statement; GDEVICE procedure; GDEVICE Parameters window
Defaults: GOPTIONS: CHARACTERS; GDEVICE: CHARACTERS=Y

Syntax
Details

Syntax

GOPTIONS: CHARACTERS | NOCHARACTERS
GDEVICE: CHARACTERS=Y | N

CHARACTERS
CHARACTERS=Y
causes SAS/GRAPH to use the device's default hardware font when you do not specify a font in a SAS program. A blank Characters field in the Parameters window is the same as CHARACTERS=Y.

NOCHARACTERS
CHARACTERS=N
causes SAS/GRAPH to draw the characters using the SIMULATE font and suppresses the use of all hardware fonts, regardless of values you specify in other SAS statements.

Details

The hardware font is not used if you changed the HPOS= and VPOS= graphics options from the default, or if you used the HEIGHT= option in a SAS statement and the device does not have scalable characters.


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