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6.1.2 Font Related Features
Figure 6–1 Compressed Output vs. Non-Compressed Output
PDF Features Included in Oracle Reports
Note: Compression rate depends on the report’s content; thus, the
time taken to generate the PDF file as well as the PDF file size will
vary from report to report.
This section outlines the various font-related features supported by Oracle Reports.
6.1.2.1 Font aliasing
Font aliasing enables you to substitute one font for another, i.e., font-to-font
substitution. This font-to-font substitution is usually used when porting applications
(in this case, your PDF file) across platforms. You can alias multibyte fonts as well as
character sets.
Font aliasing occurs at the time of generating the PDF file. The PDF file will contain
only the necessary font information required to display the output. The fonts used will
not be embedded in the PDF file.
Note: The fonts must be available on the machine displaying the
PDF output. The fonts need not be available on the machine
generating the PDF file.
At the time of viewing the report, Adobe Acrobat replaces the aliased fonts based on
the following:
1. If the fonts do not exist on the machine displaying the output, Adobe Acrobat
substitutes it with the Adobe Sans MM font.
2. If the Adobe Sans MM font does not match, the output may display dots for the
data.
Font aliasing will work with any or all of the following:
■ Single byte fonts, including Eastern European fonts for both ASCII and IS0-Latin
character sets
■ Adobe multibyte Character ID (CID) fonts, both multibyte and Unicode fonts,
which are available as a free download from Adobe
■ Type 1 Postscript fonts
■ TrueType fonts
6.1.2.1.1 Setup
There are no command line options for font aliasing.
Include the font aliasing entries in the uifont.ali file. Oracle Reports aliases the
font only when the entries in the uifont.ali file match the font information
included in the generated PDF file.
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