Font issues (two questions)
Two issues to do with fonts in FR4
1)
One of my reports uses arrow characters displayed in the 'symbol' font to indiacte movement up or down within the data. When I export this report to PDF those characters get replaed by other symbols ie th down arrow gets replaced by a 'plus or minus' sign. This doesn't happen if I print to a pdf virtual printer like cute PDF. How can I make the export work correctly.
2)
One report uses a handwriting font. When I installed my program on the client's machine the handwriting font was replaced by arial. (I suppose because they didn't have that font installed) How can I embed the font in the report so that it always shows the correct font regardless of what the user has?
Howard
1)
One of my reports uses arrow characters displayed in the 'symbol' font to indiacte movement up or down within the data. When I export this report to PDF those characters get replaed by other symbols ie th down arrow gets replaced by a 'plus or minus' sign. This doesn't happen if I print to a pdf virtual printer like cute PDF. How can I make the export work correctly.
2)
One report uses a handwriting font. When I installed my program on the client's machine the handwriting font was replaced by arial. (I suppose because they didn't have that font installed) How can I embed the font in the report so that it always shows the correct font regardless of what the user has?
Howard
Comments
http://www.fast-report.com/en/forum/?p=/discussion/8310
Ah, so it looks like it is something to do with embedding then.
(Rather annoying though, as I have re-written some large applications that used a combination of MSAccess and MS Excel to ones that use an embedded SQL DB, Delphi and FR specifically to get away from the portability problems of microsoft products. Now they raise their head again with fonts!
I look forward to see FR5. I'm sure it will add more good features to an already excellent FR4.
Please can you explain how I encrypt a report and what side effects this has apart from some bloat?
Howard