FONT SIZES DIFFERENT WHEN GOING FROM DEVELOPMENT TO PRODUCTION

[robin316]

We have a configured a report to run on our development instance as a pdf and it runs fine. We have moved the report to production and the font has changed causing field shifts, word wrapping,etc.

Even when running it directly from the URL the fonts change. We are developing in a Windows XP environment and we realize the font changes when deploying it on Unix/Linux and developed accordingly. Our problem is it
looks fine on our development application server (Linux) but when we put the exact same report on our production application server (also Linux) the font appears different, is larger, and causes wrapping. The servers are identical so we don't understand why this is happening. We have verified the uifont.ali and uiprint.txt are the same on both servers. Are there any other files we need to
check?

 

[tekkul]

Hi,

We're having exactly the same problem with different fontsizes in development and production. Does anyone have a solution?

 

[lewisp]

You will need to check what equivalent fonts you have available to you, and compare what fonts are configured for your web reports on the middle tier server(s).

 

[tekkul]

If I generate two PDF-documents (one flawless and one containing a failing font-size) and see the Document Properties in Adobe Reader, the font types are the same.

To make it clear, the document containing a failing font-size does show the font-size correctly, except for ONE field. The failing field has a font-size of 12 in Oracle Reports, but in production it is printed as size 9. The failing field is the only field that is containing a font size of 12 - the correct printed fields has size 11. If I open the generated PDF-documents in a text-editor I see that the failing field has the different font-sizes here (12 and 9).

I think it's weird that if I make a preview of the document in production, there is no error (the font-size is what it supposed to be)..

Even if I replace the font with another that I'm sure doesnt exist on the printer (by using uifont.ali), the font-size still is different.

I'm doing this directly on the server that is connected to the printer - not using clients.

 

[sem]

Try to set up your uifont.ali file properly.

Regards, Dima

http://seminihin.narod.ru

 

[robin316]

I have already tried that and both files are identical and correct. So that is not the problem....