Need Courier New Font on VMS 7.3-2

[Karen Lee_3]

We have a need to load a special font on OpenVMS 7.3-2 to be used by SAS programmers "Courier New" or Cumberland Fonts. Can't seem to locate it on my server - anyone know where and how and could down load it?

[Steve-Thompson]

Where exactly is the need?
(I dont have a SAS programmer handy :)
I might use Courier on my CDE environment or on my printer ... for example!

[Karen Lee_3]

according to the user - they are creating RTF files using SAS. They then have to move the documents to their Word appliation on their desktops, select all the text and change it to Courier New before submitting to Client.

They want to skip the stop of moving it and changing the font on their desktop. They want to specify "Courier New" when the RTF is initially created.

[Steven Schweda]

If "they are creating RTF files using SAS",
then it would seem to me that no one needs
_any_ particular font on the VMS-SAS system.
It should be enough for SAS to _specify_ the
desired font when it creates the Rich Text
Format file.

Only the fellow who sucks the resulting RTF
file into a program like MS Word would
actually need the font, as he's the only one
who's actually rendering the stuff.

I'd say that the question is how to specify
fonts to the program which creates the RTF.

Failing that (and knowing nothing), I'd
assume that the font name appears somewhere
in the RTF file, and that a different font
name could be substituted using something
simple, like a text editor, rather than
dragging MS Word into the picture to do that
job.

http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm

[labadie_1]

Karen

Have you looked on your system, searching for *.tlb files in sys$share: ?

Do for each file found a
$ lib/lis sys$share:xxx.tlb
, and look, you may already have that font available on your system.

If you find it, you will just need to add a /library=xxx in the setup of the queue used by your user.

[Robert Gezelter]

Karen,

I too do not have a copy of the SAS documentation. However, my suspicion is that there are two possibilities (based on the posted description).

- Courier New is generally, in my experience, the default when certain file types are loaded into Microsoft Word. Has the RTF file actually been examined and the font request verified?
- If the font is being explicitly requested, either the font metric file is missing or the SAS programmer(s) wishes to generate requests for a different font. It goes without saying that this is different if the programmers are generating an RTF file outside of normal SAS mechanisms.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com