Century Font in SSRS - Export to PDF doesn't show the font
I have a report developed using SSRS 2008. I have font as Century with size 12. When i tried to export to PDF, the font doesn't show as Century. I have tested using Acrobat 5.0 and 9.0. Any ideas?
October 8th, 2010 6:27pm
Hi cimscims,
By default, it is workable. I use SSRS 2008 + sp1, windows 7 and PDF(version: 9.3.3.177) to test it, everything works. However, for the font used in the report and exported to PDF, check the following conditions are applied:
Font embedding privileges are granted by the font author. Installed fonts include a property that indicates whether the font author intends to allow embedding a font in a document. If the property value is EMBED_NOEMBEDDING, the font is not embedded in the
PDF file. For more information, see "TTGetEmbeddingType" on msdn.microsoft.com.
The Font is TrueType.
Fonts are referenced by visible items in a report. If a font is referenced by an item that has the
Hidden property set to True, the font is not needed to display rendered data and will not be included in the file. Fonts are embedded only when they are needed to display the rendered report data.
see
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159713(SQL.100).aspx for more details about font embedding when exporting to PDF.
thanks,
Jerry
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October 11th, 2010 12:04pm
Thanks Jerry. After reading your suggestions, i have downloaded the Font Extensions and the reports started working. Thank you.
October 12th, 2010 10:23pm