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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 1:12pm

Attaching support reply (via mail) for others to benefit from this:

Hello Luca,

On Linux only Adobe standard fonts work by default.  They can use Helvetica instead of Arial, Times instead of Times New Roman, Courier instead of Courier New.  If they want other fonts (like Arial for example) to work, they need to configure a private font (this means to copy arial.ttf onto the Linux system and add a path to it in the config file).

The fonts.config file is located here: /opt/Ecrion/Common/Config/
Fonts.config

Here is an example of mapping in the fonts.config file:
MapFont:TIMES-NEW-ROMAN=..\Fonts\truetype\times.ttf
MapFont:TIMES-NEW-ROMAN-ITALIC=..\Fonts\truetype\timesi.ttf
MapFont:TIMES-NEW-ROMAN-BOLD=..\Fonts\truetype\timesbd.ttf
MapFont:TIMES-NEW-ROMAN-BOLD-ITALIC=..\Fonts\truetype\timesbi.ttf
MapFont:ARIAL=..\Fonts\truetype\arial.ttf
MapFont:ARIAL-ITALIC=..\Fonts\truetype\ariali.ttf
MapFont:ARIAL-BOLD=..\Fonts\truetype\arialbd.ttf
MapFont:ARIAL-BOLD-ITALIC=..\Fonts\truetype\arialbi.ttf

MapAlias:Times New Roman=TIMES-NEW-ROMAN
MapAlias:Times New Roman-ITALIC=TIMES-NEW-ROMAN-ITALIC
MapAlias:Times New Roman-BOLD=TIMES-NEW-ROMAN-BOLD 
MapAlias:Times New Roman-BOLD-ITALIC=TIMES-NEW-ROMAN-BOLD-ITALIC

MapAlias:Arial=ARIAL
MapAlias:Arial-ITALIC=ITALIC=ARIAL-ITALIC
MapAlias:Arial-BOLD=ARIAL-BOLD
MapAlias:Arial-BOLD-ITALIC=ARIAL-BOLD-ITALIC



Edited by florinv - 21 Sep 2011 at 7:36am]]> Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:12:27 +0000 http://www.ecrion.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=317&PID=792#792 XF Rendering server on CentOS 5.4 (missing fonts) : Hello there,we're having... http://www.ecrion.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=317&PID=791#791 Author: Burn
Subject: 317
Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 10:12am

Hello there,

we're having troubles rendering Arial fonts (and other fonts usually not present in linux) in PDFs generated from the server. Is it possible to extend the font library in the XF rendering server's installation to support all the common fonts one can use in windows with the XF Designer software?

If there an import tool that we can employ? if so what's the procedure?

Thanks in advance,

Luca
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