Report font on linux server

william humphrey bill at bluewatermaritime.com
Thu Jul 18 10:56:34 CDT 2013


I see that sometimes for PDF reports on two different Macs running the
same system but ending up with different fonts in the output.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Jay Madren <jay at jaymadren.com> wrote:
> I have developed a report on my Mac and have deployed it in Xojo Web Edition
> on an Amazon EC2 Ubuntu server. The report outputs to a PDF. When the report
> is run on the server, the font doesn't match what I see when I designed the
> report on my Mac, or when running the report locally on my Mac.
>
> Seeing that the report was using the "system default" font, I changed it to
> Arial, and made sure I have Arial installed on the server. It didn't make
> any difference. I thought the report may be trying to use the "liberation"
> font on the server instead of Arial, so I uninstalled the liberation fonts
> and all other fonts except the Microsoft TrueType core fonts. But the report
> still uses some unknown font that doesn't look good.
>
> How can I get the report on the server to use the same font that I designed
> it with? Or at least get it to use a font that looks better than what it
> currently uses?
>
> Jay
>
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