XF Rendering server on CentOS 5.4 (missing fonts)

   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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	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

Burn Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 22 Mar 2011 Location: Italy Posts: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote Burn Report Post Quote Reply 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