FontIssues

Why does my HTML and/or PDF file not look like the Designer Preview?

Usually, this problem occurs due to the font used on your report template. If your font is Serif font or not a truetype font, you will usually encounter this issue. In order to resolve this issue, please change the font to another font type like Arial.

Reports generated on NT displays with the Times-font while when generated on Solaris, displays with Courier-font.

There are two possibilities to this. If the file is generated wrong (the font is not correctly set), the same file will have problem on both NT and Solaris. This doesn't look like the case. The second possibility is that PDF reader on Solaris is automatically substituting fonts due to unavailability of Times-fonts. This can be verified by using the same PDF file and manually load it into PDF reader.

Why is the report printed with a much smaller font in the runtime environment than in the IDE?

This is only observed with IBM JVM and IBM VA environment. This has been confirmed as a IBM JVM bug and it can be fixed by upgrading to the latest version of IBM JVM.

How can I make TrueType^? fonts visible to Java without installing them through the OS?

To use TrueType^? fonts in Java without registering them on the OS level for JDK 1.5+: Add a fallback directory with the TrueType^? fonts in your $(JAVA_HOME)/jre/lib folder. i.e. add the TTF files into:

/usr/java/java_CURRENT/jre/lib/fonts/fallback

Why do some viewsheet components render CJK characters and others (charts) do not?

When using CJK content in charts, make sure to use a font that can render the unicode characters, like Arial Unicode. This discrepancy occurs because Adobe Flex will automatically fall back to a font that supports CJK characters if they are detected. However, Charts are drawn using our proprietary charting engine, and not by Flex.

-- StephenWebster - 11 Dec 2007