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Universal Printing

What Is Universal Printing?

Universal Printing is a system that provides both interactive and batch printing

capabilities to create variety of document and graphic output formats. For example, you

can use Universal Printing to create HTML, PDF, documents, and PNG, GIF, and SVG

graphics. For a complete list of supported document and graphic types, see Table 15.1 on

page 240.

Universal Printing enables you to define printers and print previewers, and to set options

to control the printed output. In addition to creating the various document and graphic

output types, you can send output to a printer.

Windows Specifics

By default, the Windows operating environment uses Windows printing and not

Universal Printing. For more information about using Universal Printing under

Windows, see “Setting Up the Universal Printing Interface and the Default Printing

Environment” on page 239.

SAS routes all printing through Universal Printing services. All Universal Printing

features are controlled by system options, thereby enabling you to control many print

features, even in batch mode. For more information about these system options, see

“System Options That Control Universal Printing” on page 274.

Note: Before the introduction of Universal Printing, SAS supported a utility for print

jobs known as Forms. Forms printing is still available if you select File ð Print

Setup from the menu in the windowing environment. Then check the Use Forms

check box. This turns off Universal Printing menus and functionality. For more

information, see “Forms Printing” on page 282.

Setting Up the Universal Printing Interface and the Default Printing

Environment

Universal Printing in UNIX and z/OS

Universal Printing is enabled when SAS starts in the UNIX and z/OS operating

environments. No further action is required.

Universal Printing in Windows

Under Windows, Windows printing is enabled when SAS starts. To use Universal

Printing in Windows, you must set the UNIVERSALPRINT system option to enable the

Universal Printing environment, menus, and dialog boxes, and to set up the printing

defaults. If you use the SAS windowing environment, you can also use the

UPRINTMENUSWITCH system option to enable the print commands on the File menu.

These options can be set only in a SAS configuration file or at start-up. You cannot

enable or disable Universal Printing menus and dialog boxes after SAS starts.

Include the following system options when you start SAS:

-uprint -uprintmenuswitch

UPRINT is an alias for the UNIVERSALPRINT system option.

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If you start SAS with only the UPRINT option, you need to close the HTML destination,

which is open by default. Use the PRINTERPATH= option to specify the output format

type. Then, use an ODS PRINTER statement and ODS PRINTER CLOSE statement

around the code that you want to execute. Here is an example:

ods html close;

options printerpath=pdf;

ods printer;

proc print data=sashelp.class;

run;

ods printer close;

Return to the Default Printer

When you use the PRINTERPATH= system option to specify a printer, the print job is

controlled by Universal Printing. To return to the default Universal Printer (the

PostScript printer) set the PRINTERPATH= option to a null value (double quotation

marks with no space between them):

options printerpath="";

In Windows, when Universal Printing is not enabled, setting PRINTERPATH= to a null

value returns printing to Windows printing.

Universal Printing Output Formats

In addition to sending print jobs to a printer, you can also direct output to external files

that are widely recognized by different types of printers and software programs. You can

use Universal Printing to produce the following commonly recognized file types.

Table 15.1 Available Print Output Formats

Type Full Name Description

GIF Graphics

Interchange

Format

An image format designed for the online transmission and

interchange of graphic data. The format is widely used to

display images on the World Wide Web because of its smaller

size and portability.

EMF Enhanced

Metafile Format

A metafile format that is a collection of graphic drawing

commands, configuration properties, and graphic objects to

create true color, scalable, device-independent graphics.

Applications that support EMF run on Windows. Universal

Printing currently supports EMF, EMFPlus, and EMFDual

levels of the metafile format. The EMF Universal Printer uses

the EMFPlus level of metafile formatting, which is the default

EMF printer.

PCL Printer Control

Language

Developed by Hewlett-Packard as a language that applications

use to control a wide range of printer features across a number

of printing devices. Universal Printing currently supports

PCL4, PCL5, PCL5e, and PCL5c levels of the language.

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Type Full Name Description

PDF Portable

Document

Format

A file format developed by Adobe Systems for viewing and

printing a formatted document. To view a file in PDF format,

you need Adobe Reader, a free application distributed by

Adobe Systems.

Note: Adobe Acrobat is not required to produce PDF files with

Universal Printing.

PNG Portable

Network

Graphics

An image format that was designed as a replacement for the

older simple GIF format and the more complex TIFF format.

As with GIF, one of the major uses of PNG is to display images

on the web. PNG has these major advantages over GIF on the

web: gamma correction, two-dimensional interlacing, variable

transparency (alpha channel), setting the resolution, and more

than 256 colors.

PS PostScript A page description language developed by Adobe Systems.

This is the default Universal Printer.

SVG Scalable Vector

Graphics

A vector format that is a language for describing two-

dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML.

TIFF Tagged Image

File Format

An Adobe raster image format that supports both image and

data in a single file. The TIFF Universal Printer supports

RGBA color printing and transparency. The TIFFk Universal

Printer supports CYMK color printing.

You set the value of the PRINTERPATH= system option to a Universal Printer or use

ODS statements to create output in one of the above formats. When the

PRINTERPATH= system option is set to a printer that prints to a file, the default

filename is sasprt.extension. extension is the printer format type. Here are some example

filenames: sasprt.pdf, sasprt.emf, sasprt.png, and sasprt.gif. The file is written to the

current directory.

You can use the PRINTERPATH= system option to change the location and the name of

the file. Here is an example:

options printerpath=(svg out);

filename out 'c:myimagesgraph1.svg';

Viewing Universal Printers and Printer Prototypes

SAS provides Universal Printers and printer prototypes that you can use to create your

own printers. You can access the list of available printers from the Print dialog box. You

can also use the QDEVICE procedure to create a data set of printers and then print the

printer information using the PRINT procedure.

To create a table of printers and print the list with a description of each printer, submit

this code:

proc qdevice out=printers;

printer _all_;

run;

proc print data=printers;

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var name desc;

run;

For more information, see “QDEVICE Procedure” in Base SAS Procedures Guide.

To print a list of printer prototypes to the SAS log, submit this SAS program:

filename registry temp;

proc printto log=registry;

run;

proc registry list keysonly levels=1 startat="coreprintingprototypes";

proc printto;

run;

data protypes;

keep prototype;

infile registry lrecl=300 pad;

length line $300;

input line $300.;

if substr(line,1,1) = "["

then do;

prototype = strip(substr(line,2,length(line)-2);

if index(prototype,'coreprintingprototypes') ne 0

then delete;

else

output;

end;

run;

proc print label;

label prototype = "Prototype";

run;

For more information, see “REGISTRY Procedure” in Base SAS Procedures Guide.

Viewing Universal Printer Settings

You can use the QDEVICE procedure or the Print dialog box to view the settings of a

Universal Printer. To view printer settings using the QDEVICE procedure, submit this

code:

proc qdevice;

printer printer-name;

run;

Here are the printer settings for the GIF printer:

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19 proc qdevice;

20 printer gif;

21 run;

Name: GIF

Description: Graphics Interchange Format RGB Color/Alpha Blending

Module: SASPDGIF

Type: Universal Printer

Registry: SASHELP

Prototype: GIF

Default Typeface: Cumberland AMT

Typeface Alias: Courier

Font Style: Regular

Font Weight: Normal

Font Height: 8 points

Font Version: Version 1.03

Maximum Colors: 16777216

Visual Color: True Color

Color Support: RGBA

Destination: sasprt.gif

I/O Type: DISK

Data Format: GIF

Height: 6.25 inches

Width: 8.33 inches

Ypixels: 600

Xpixels: 800

Rows(vpos): 50

Columns(hpos): 114

Left Margin: 0 inches

Minimum Left Margin: 0 inches

Right Margin: 0 inches

Minimum Right Margin: 0 inches

Bottom Margin: 0 inches

Minimum Bottom Margin: 0 inches

Top Margin: 0 inches

Minimum Top Margin: 0 inches

XxY Resolution: 96x96 pixels per inch

Compression Enabled: Always

Compression Method: LZW

Font Embedding: Never

Animation: Enabled

The QDEVICE procedure does not report all printer settings. For a description of the

printer settings that can be reported, see “QDEVICE Procedure” in Base SAS Procedures

Guide.

Modifying Universal Printing Printer Settings

You modify printer settings using the Universal Printer dialog boxes, by setting SAS

system options, or by using the PRTDEF procedure. See the following topics:

• “Configuring Universal Printing Using the Windowing Environment” on page 257

• “System Options That Control Universal Printing” on page 274

• “Managing Universal Printers Using the PRTDEF Procedure” on page 276

Universal Printing and ODS

The ODS PRINTER statement can use Universal Printing whether the

UNIVERSALPRINT or NOUNIVERSALPRINT system option is set. The PRINTER

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