In Acrobat Writer 6.0 or later, open the PDF document.

11-16 Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services This environment variable switches the layout algorithm for bidirectional BiDi languages for example, Arabic or Hebrew. The valid values for this environment variable are ORACLE, ENHANCED or UNICODE.

2. REPORTS_ARABIC_NUMERAL

This environment variable specifies the numeric format for Arabic PDF output.

11.4.1 Font Subsetting

The following example assumes you are using Arabic environment. The steps involved in generating a PDF file for bidirectional BiDi languages using the font subsetting feature are as follows: 1. Set NLS_LANG=ARABIC_EGYPT.AR8MSWIN1256 or AR8ISO8859P6 on UNIX. 2. Set REPORTS_PATH to the font directory in which the TrueType font exists. For example, C:\WINNT\fonts. 3. Open the uifont.ali file and edit the [PDF:Subset] section to specify the TrueType font name. Example [PDF:Subset] Andale Duospace WT J = Aduoj.ttf Albany WT J=AlbanWTJ.ttf 4. Create a report having Arabic data and set it to the font specified in the example. 5. Run a report with DESTYPE=FILE DESFORMAT=PDF.

11.5 Generating a Multibyte PDF File

This section outlines the steps involved in generating a PDF file with multibyte fonts. Before using the font features covered in this section, refer to Table 11–4 to determine which feature best suits your application needs. In PDF font subsetting output, you may see a Wave Dash U+301C instead of a Fullwidth Tilde U+FF5E. This is due to incompatibility in character mapping between Microsoft and other vendors. To avoid this issue, you can use either JA16SJISTILDE or JA16EUCTILDE character set for PDF font subsetting. This issue, however, is not observed with the PDF font aliasing feature.

11.5.1 Font Aliasing

Refer to Table 11–2 for a summary of mapping between Oracle NLS_CHARACTERSET, CMap name, and its CID font name used in PDF font aliasing for multibyte fonts. See Also: Section B.1.31, REPORTS_BIDI_ALGORITHM See Also: Section B.1.29, REPORTS_ARABIC_NUMERAL Note: The uifont.ali file is located in the following directory on Windows and UNIX: ■ ORACLE_INSTANCE\config\FRComponent\ frcommon\guicommon\tk\admin