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Resolving PDF Font Issues During Cross-Platform Deployment
Note: The corresponding AFM files for all the TrueType fonts used
in your report should be available on the UNIX machine to ensure
adequate formatting is enforced.
6.2.2.1 Step by Step Procedure for Single Byte fonts
This section outlines the steps involved in generating a PDF report (using single byte
fonts) designed on the Windows platform on either Solaris or any other UNIX
platform. These steps are required only if you see font alignment issues in your PDF
output.
1. Create a report on the Windows platform with TrueType fonts. For this procedure,
the fonts referred to are arial.ttf and tahoma.ttf.
2. Copy the fonts (arial.ttf and tahoma.ttf) and your report’s .rdf file to the
UNIX platform. The path for the font files should be ORACLE_HOME/font
folder. Add the font file’s path to the REPORTS_PATH environment variable.
3. Create the AFM files for the font files (arial.ttf and tahoma.ttf).
4. Copy the AFM files (arial.afm and tahoma.afm) generated to ORACLE_
HOME/guicommon9/tk90/admin/AFM.
Note: The AFM files should be copied to the AFM directory
without the .afm extension. Additionally, ensure that the name of
afm file, the name of the font in the .ppd file, and the name of the
font the uifont.ali file are an exact match.
5. Ensure that the TK_PRINTER environment variable or the PRINTER environment
variable is set to the printer name. For example, hrprinter.
6. Ensure that the uiprint.txt file has the following entry:
printer name:PostScript:2:test:default.ppd:
For example:
hrprinter:PostScript:2:test:default.ppd:
7. Add the AFM entries to the ppd file.
Note: This ppd file is the first entry in the uiprint.txt file and
contains your font information. The default ppd file is
datap462.ppd.
*Font arial: Standard "(001.001)" Standard ROM
*Font tahoma: Standard "(001.001)" Standard ROM
8. Ensure that there are no entries in the [PDF:Subset] section at this time in the
uifont.ali file.
9. Run the report to generate the PDF file. In Acrobat Reader, click File > Document
Properties > Fonts or File >Document Info > Fonts:
a. The Original Font column displays the Arial and Tahoma fonts.
b. There will be some font alignment issues.
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