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PDF Features Included in Oracle Reports
■ In Acrobat Reader, click File > Document Properties > Fonts. Verify that the
aliased font has been added to the list. If it is not included, then font aliasing did
not occur. The fonts were not found or the entry in the uifont.ali file is
incorrect.
■ The fonts specified for the report are available on the machine where the report
will be viewed.
■ The [PDF] section name in the uifont.ali file has not been modified as Oracle
Reports parses the file for the section name.
■ The version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader used for viewing is version 3.0 or higher.
This is the version required for multibyte character reports to display properly.
6.1.2.2 Font Subsetting
PDF font subsetting is a variant of PDF font embedding. This option includes only the
glyphs and character information that is actually used in the document.
With font subsetting, there is no dependency on the machine having the fonts
installed. PDF font subsetting works for both single and multibyte fonts and is the
preferred method of creating multibyte reports.
6.1.2.2.1 Setup
There are no command line options for font subsetting.
Before using the font subsetting feature you must:
■ Include the font file paths in the REPORTS_PATH environment variable. Oracle
Reports looks for fonts in the path specified in the REPORTS_PATH environment
variable when generating a PDF file.
■ Include the font subsetting entries in the uifont.ali file. Oracle Reports subsets
the fonts only when the font entries listed in the uifont.ali file exist in the PDF
file being generated.
The section for font subset in the uifont.ali file is [PDF:Subset].
The entry in the uifont.ali file is :
[PDF:Subset]
Font Name = "Font File Name"
The file name entries should be enclosed within quotes; however, only font names
containing two or more words should be enclosed within quotes.
The font file name referenced in the uifont.ali file must match the existing font file
name for font subsetting to work correctly.
Example
Note: Font subsetting will work only if the glyphs and font data
are included in the PDF file.
Note: The font file name is not the font name displayed in Reports
Builder.
[PDF:Subset]
Arial = "Arial.ttf"
Using PDF in Oracle Reports 6-5