Specific font types

Determine whether the fonts you wish to use are available for your system, and are usable by both the designer and the runtime system.

Type 1 and Windows™ TrueType Fonts

Genero Report Engine is capable of reading both Type 1 and Windows TrueType fonts. It is possible to copy fonts from Windows to UNIX™. Since the TrueType directories can differ between Linux™ distributions and between different UNIX versions, copy the fonts into /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF (for TTF fonts) or to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 (for Type1 fonts), where they will be found by GRE. To check whether GRE sees the font, run the executable $GREDIR/bin/fontinfo, listing the fonts seen by the GRE.

Important: You must identify whether the fonts you wish to copy violate any copyrights.

Lucida family of Fonts

SUN-Java contains a basic set of fonts (Serif, Sans Serif and Monospaced) in the "Lucida" family. Some distributions of the Java™ Runtime Environment do not contain all fonts, but it is legal to copy the fonts from one distribution to another. These fonts contain a large part of the Unicode characters.

The available codes are listed in http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/intl/font.html#lucida.

Liberation fonts

Another option for free fonts is the "Liberation" fonts originally provided by Red-Hat. These fonts have the same metrics (character width) as the Microsoft™ fonts Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier, and a similar look. These fonts can be installed on both Windows and Linux. A description of the fonts can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts. The fonts can be downloaded at https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts.

Asian Fonts

When using Asian fonts in PDF or SVG documents:

Set the fidelity property to "true" on any WORDBOX or WORDWRAPBOX using Asian characters.
For reports running in compatibility, set the parameter fidelity to "true" in calls to the API function fgl_report_configureCompatibilityOutput().

Make sure the specified fonts contain the required characters. The designer will display the characters correctly even though the selected font may not contain them; the runtime system does not have this behavior.