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4.1 Using Fonts
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Managing Fonts in Oracle Reports
This chapter provides information about fonts in Oracle Reports. In particular, it
covers:
■ Using Fonts
■ Adding Fonts
■ Font Configuration Files
■ Font Aliasing
■ Troubleshooting Font Issues
■ Font Types
In Oracle Reports, fonts come into play:
■ At build time (in Reports Builder)
■ At runtime (in the report’s output)
■ In the user interface of Reports Builder
4.1.1 Fonts in Reports Builder
Reports Builder provides a list of fonts that are available on the system in the font
picker box.
Figure 4–1 Font list in Reports Builder
On Windows, the font list is derived from the fonts that are installed on the system
along with the fonts available on the current default printer. A small printer icon
before the font name identifies printer fonts. True Type fonts are associated with a TTF
icon.
On UNIX, the font list is derived by querying the X-server display on which the
application is running for the available fonts. The command is similar to the UNIX
xlsfonts command, which lists all of the available fonts for the X-server display.
From this font list, Reports Builder generates a list of usable fonts with the valid style,
weight, width, size, and encoding characteristics to match the character set. The
character set is driven by the NLS_LANG environment variable. Reports Builder
includes only those fonts with an encoding of iso8859-1, unless specified differently
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