Adding fonts on Windows

Managing Fonts in Oracle Reports 9-9 Styles may be combined; you can use the plus sign + to delimit parts of a style. For example: Arial..Italic+Overstrike = Helvetica.12.Italic.Bold This mapping indicates that any Arial that has both Italic and Overstrike styles will be mapped to a 12-point, bold, italic Helvetica font. For multibyte language support, you must alias a character set with a CID font Section 9.5.7, CID Fonts from the Asian font pack from Adobe. For example, in your Japanese report you have aliased a multibyte Shift-JIS characterset be aliased to HeiseiKakuGo-W5-Acro CID font with the following entry: JA16SJIS = HeiseiKakuGo-W5-Acro All strings are case-insensitive in mapping. Font faces are likely to be case-sensitive on lookup, depending on the platform and surface. As a result, take care with the names used. For example, if the font name arial is used on the left-hand side the original font, all layout objects with fonts such as arial or Arial are mapped to the aliased font. Refer to Section 9.4, Font Aliasing for more information. PPD and AFM files UNIX only PostScript Printer Definition PPD files and Adobe Font Metrics AFM files are supplied by Adobe and by printer vendors. The PPD files contain information about the printer, and the AFM files contain metrics information of the fonts. Along with other parameters, these files are read for the information about the available fonts for the printer, which Oracle Reports will use. For all the fonts listed in the PPD file, Oracle Reports searches for the corresponding AFM file according to the font name and loads all of the fonts for which there is an available AFM. From the fonts perspective, you should modify these files when you add new fonts for the printer and want these changes reflected in Oracle Reports. Example: Font Information ===================== DefaultFont: Error Font AvantGarde-Demi: Standard 001.001 Standard Font AvantGarde-DemiOblique: Standard 001.001 Standard Font Courier: Standard 001.004 Standard Font Courier-Bold: Standard 001.004 Standard Table 9–3 Widths and Their Numeric Equivalents Width Name Numeric Equivalent Ultradense 1 Extradense 2 Dense 3 Semidense 4 Normal 5 Expand 7 Extraexpand 8 Ultraexpand 9