What's New in the 9.4 Base SAS
Language Reference: Concepts
Overview
SAS 9.4 has the following changes and enhancements:
• in the fourth maintenance release of SAS 9.4, new TrueType fonts were added.
• in the third maintenance release of SAS 9.4, Avenir Next TrueType fonts were added
• new LOCKDOWN statement and system option in the first maintenance release of
SAS 9.4
• in the second maintenance release of SAS 9.4, enhancements to the LOCKDOWN
feature
• in the second maintenance release of SAS 9.4, font slanting and emboldening
support for universal printer fonts
• universal printing enhancements to support additional graphic output types and
animation for GIF and SVG files
• buffer size specification support for SAS DATA step views
• new multilingual and Asian monolingual TrueType fonts
• support for extended attributes on SAS data sets and variables
• enhanced functionality to extend the observation count for 32-bit SAS data files
• enhancements to SAS data file protection
• enhanced functionality for VIEWTABLE column headings
SAS System Features
Universal Printing
• You can animate multi-page GIF images and SVG files.
• SAS can now create TIFF images, and the EMFPlus and EMFDual metafile formats.
• Transparency is supported for EMF Universal Printers and GIF images that are
printed using the PostScript Universal Printer.
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