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Adding Fonts
4.2 Adding Fonts
parameters. For non-Unicode environments, the font is obtained from the icon objects.
You can change it by modifying the fonts via Display Property > Appearance. Select
Icon from the drop down box and select the desired font name and size. For Japanese
Unicode systems, the font is MS Gothic. For Korean, it’s MS Sans Serif. For simplified,
traditional, and Hong Kong it’s Arial. For other languages, it’s Lucida Sans Unicode.
You can also change the Windows tool tip font by changing the icon font as described
above. This change is not completely reflected across Reports Builder because some
tool tip fonts are taken from the resource file.
In Oracle Reports, fonts for the Web Source view are selected by making an entry in
the alias file under the [RWBUILDER] section. The entry required for this change should
only be aliased to the character set and not to any specific font. For example, if you
want to use Arial Unicode MS when NLS is set to UTF8, then you should create an
entry like this one:
…..UTF8 = "Arial Unicode MS"…..
Refer to Font Aliasing for more information.
The supported styles are: Plain, Italic, Oblique, Underline, Outline, Shadow, Inverted,
Overstrike, and Blink.
The supported weights are: Ultralight, Extralight, Light, Demilight, Medium,
Demibold, Bold, Extrabold, and Ultrabold.
You should not use fonts with a weight of Regular because this weight is not
supported and may cause Reports Builder to display undesirable results.
In Oracle Reports, fonts can be added for use:
■ At build time (in Reports Builder)
■ At runtime (in the output)
■ In the user interface
4.2.1 Adding Fonts to Reports Builder
To build a report in a certain font, the font must be available in Reports Builder from
the font picker when you are designing the report. In order for the fonts to appear in
the font picker, the fonts should be added to the system or the display on which
Reports Builder is running. Please review your operating system documentation for
adding fonts before attempting this procedure.
To add Type1 fonts on UNIX:
1. Get the font-related files from the vendor. These include the .pfb, .pfa, and the
AFM files.
2. Convert the .pfb binary file to .pfa ASCII font using one of the available
convertors. Typically, you can get such converters as shareware, e.g., t1ascii.
3. Copy the .pfa files to the directory where the fonts need to be installed following
the instructions for our platform.
4. Verify the installation of the fonts by entering the xlsfonts -u command. This
command lists all the fonts that are available for that system.
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