{"id":50,"date":"2008-10-16T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2008-10-17T03:30:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T03:30:22","slug":"solving-the-oracle-reports-10g-fonts-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/solving-the-oracle-reports-10g-fonts-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving the Oracle Reports 10g fonts problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, we were able to solve the Arial Italic and Bold problems. Using\u00a0 Metalink Note 261879.1, it was relatively straightforward to add the font.<\/p>\n<p>The steps to follow are:<\/p>\n<p>1) Transfer the Arial fonts (ttf version) from Windows to UNIX. Make note of this directory.<\/p>\n<p>2) Use the open source program <em>ttf2afm <\/em> to generate Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) files for TrueType (TTF) fonts.<\/p>\n<p>3) Modify reports_path to add the fonts directory.<\/p>\n<p>4) Make sure the AFM file for the italic version does not have the (-) sign for the slant angle.<\/p>\n<p>5) Update the ALI file to add the Arial font in [PDF] section. Check the version of the ALI file mentionned in the Metalink Note 261879.1<\/p>\n<p>6) Restart the reports server.<\/p>\n<p>These steps can be used for any font that you want to add to your reports server setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, we were able to solve the Arial Italic and Bold problems. Using\u00a0 Metalink Note 261879.1, it was relatively straightforward to add the font. The steps to follow are: 1) Transfer the Arial fonts (ttf version) from Windows to UNIX. Make note of this directory. 2) Use the open source program ttf2afm to generate Adobe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[30,28,29,26],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phEMW-O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}