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Troubleshooting Font Issues
■ The display system on UNIX (for example, X11) is totally independent of any
application or printer. There is no direct connection between printing and
displaying. There can be a font displayed on your screen that is not printed.
Display and printer fonts are somewhat similar but have more differences than
similarities.
X fonts (display fonts) are bitmap display glyphs, which are displayed on an X
terminal by an X Server.
Printer fonts are PostScript fonts (mathematical descriptions of fonts, not bitmaps)
that are present in a PostScript printer and are generated by a PostScript
Interpreter on that printer.
■ Font size changes after applying a template.
Creating a template with font set to Times New Roman size 10 (for all fields) and
making the report use this template, makes the Paper Design view of the Report
Editor display a different font size.
The reason for this behavior is that defaulting couldn't fit the layout into the
desired area.
First it reduced the size of text fields and then reduced the size of the fonts. This is
much better than wrapping the fields and keeping the template font size.
Also, for templates, the font chosen may be different to that in the template since it
matches first on the character set. So if the template font doesn't support the
current character set, the font will change to one that does. This is mostly visible if
you have an English template, which you use in a Hebrew/Arabic environment.
Common Problems
Problem: Letters are truncated from the right margin on printed label reports.
You have printed a mailing label report on a Windows machine and notice that the last
letter, or last few letters, on each line are being truncated. The letters are not missing
when you preview the report. You have tried changing the page formatting and font
settings, but this has failed to resolve the problem.
Solution: If the report displays correctly using a DESTYPE of Preview, this is not a
problem with the printer driver. The problem may be occurring due to the frame
properties.
If a frame around the layout objects has a Horizontal Elasticity setting of Fixed and the
data exceeds the frame size, it can cause this truncation of data.
Try testing the results after changing Horizontal Elasticity to Expand or Variable.
Problem: When generating to file as HTMLCSS, a column is dropped off in the
output.
You are generating a report to an HTMLCSS file format and it appears to be fine in the
Paper Design view of the Report Editor. When you click on the newly created file it
comes up in your browser, but the last column is missing from the report output.
If you re-run the report again, it still looks fine in the Paper Design view and the
column is there as it should be. Clicking on the file again appears to have the column
dropped off and missing from the report output. PDF appears fine in Paper Design
view and the Adobe Acrobat reader.
Solution:
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