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Table 4–5 (Cont.) Font mapping file sections
Section name Description
Display Only applies to the display (the screen).
Display:Motif Applies only to the Motif display.
Display:CM Applies only to character-mode display.
PDF Used for font aliasing (from Oracle Reports 6i)
and multibyte language support (from Oracle
Reports)
PDF:Embed (Oracle Reports only) Used for Type 1 font
embedding.
PDF:Subset (Oracle Reports only)
RWBUILDER (Oracle Reports only) Fonts for the Web source
and PL/SQL editor can be mapped in this
section.
printer_name A section for a specific printer, such as:
[Printer:PostScript1:2op813a]
Note: In the Web Source view of the Report Editor, the following
languages may appear garbled: Japanese, Thai, Arabic, and
Hebrew. To work around this issue, you can set the font names for
Reports Builder in uifont.ali as follows:
[rwbuilder]
.....ja16sjis="MS Gothic"
.....ar8mswin1256="Courier New"
Font Aliasing
Order of precedence
When aliasing a particular font, only one section is read based upon the context in
which the font is used. Hence, if three sections apply, only one is read. For example,
suppose you have three sections, [Printer], [Printer:PostScript], and
[Printer:PostScript:2op813a]. When generating output, if the printer is
2op813a, only the mapping rules in section [Printer:PostScript:2op813a] are
read. For printers other than 2op813a, Oracle Reports would use the
[Printer:PostScript] section.
The more specific sections of the alias file take precedence over the more general
sections. For example, a specific printer section, such as
[Printer:PostScript1:2op813a] would take precedence over the
[Printer:PostScript1] section, which would take precedence over the
[Printer] section, which would take precedence over the [Global] section.
The uifont.ali file is the configuration file controlling all of the Oracle Reports
PDF font enhancements. It can be found in the ORACLE_HOME\tools\common90
(Windows) directory and in the ORACLE_HOME/guicommon9/tk90/admin (UNIX)
directory. The uifont.ali file is text readable, i.e., you can edit it with a standard
text editor. Exercise caution when editing the file. The uifont.ali file should be
saved as a text file with no formatting or special characters that may corrupt the file.
Managing Fonts in Oracle Reports 4-15