Post-conversion, remove the .afm extension in the AFM file name. For example:

Font Model and Cross-Platform Deployment 12-21 To verify the fonts used, do the following: ■ In Acrobat Reader 6.0, choose File Document Properties Fonts. ■ In Acrobat Reader 3.0 and above, choose File Document Info Fonts. The Original Font column should display the David font.

12.6.2.1 Troubleshooting Information

If you encounter deployment issues, review the following troubleshooting information: ■ If you do not get the correct fonts in the PDF output, set the environment variable DEBUG_SLFIND to a log file name, for example, debug.txt, and run the report. The font files that are looked up while parsing the PPD file as well as the fonts used will be written to the log file debug.txt. Specifically, check for the following:

1. The PPD file that you modified should be picked up. If it is not picked up it is

a configuration issue. Refer to Chapter 9, Managing Fonts in Oracle Reports .

2. The AFM files that you have copied to AFM directory should be picked up

next. See Chapter 11, Using PDF in Oracle Reports for more information on DEBUG_ SLFIND.

12.6.3 Frequently Asked Questions

This section contains frequently asked questions FAQs pertaining to deploying a report to multibyte PDF output. Question What are the cross-platform issues for the PDF output when using CID multibyte fonts? Answer To enable multibyte language support in PDF reports with CID multibyte fonts, you must make sure that the Asian font package is installed for your Acrobat Reader on the machine where you are going to view these PDF files. The Asian font package is available at the Adobe Web site. Question Why is the formatting of my report not correct when using multibyte fonts on UNIX, or why do I see misaligned text in the report? Answer If you have used ttf2pt1 to create the AFM file, ttf2pt1 has a limitation in that it creates AFM files with metrics information for only the first 256 characters of the font. The first 256 characters are for Latin-1 characters. So, if your font contains more than 256 characters, metrics information will not be available for the additional characters. Oracle Reports uses default metrics information contained in the AFM file when it encounters characters in the report that are not in the AFM file. These default metrics may not match the exact metrics of the characters used in the report. For this reason, formatting will not be correct. To avoid this situation when you are using characters beyond the first 256 characters of the font, you can use fixed width fonts where all the