Installing OCR font
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Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 15:50:28 EDT
Attempting to use bank type font (OCR) in Oracle Reports with Exceed as the
X11 server for application design. Exceed 7.1 is used in a Solaris 8
environment. Setup of the Exceed font server is not working as expected.
First, the font installs on Solaris and the font server from a Solaris
workstation provides the font to the X font utilities and to Oracle
Reports. The font is a Postscript Type 1 which is an ASCII file. The
Solaris environment appears to work fine.
Second, printing in the Oracle environment can be interactive or batch and
Oracle Reports requires some configuration. Printing cannot work unless
the report is compiled with the font so this issue is with Exceed
configuration for now. The first attempt was to use the font configurator
and add the host font server. Many fonts installed but the OCR font was
not one of the installed fonts. The EXCEED log file did not show any
errors. Tried various approaches such as rebuilding the database but the
font never appeared. The postscript font is a .pfa file.
The second attempt was to install the font from a PC directory and see if
Oracle could view the file. The font has two PC modes True Type and Type 1
(this uses the file extension of .pfm). The Exceed font server utility
displays the fonts correctly. Font database rebuilt and Oracle started.
Oracle font viewer did not display the font on the drop down. Attempted to
rhash the font server - the font path correct but the font was not visible
although all the other host fonts appeared to work. Again, no errors in
the log.
QUESTION:
If the font is on the host font server then should it be visible to Exceed
if the local DISPLAY is set and the font is in the path?
If the font cannot be provided by the UNIX font server then can it be
provided from the PC directories? If it is then when the report is
compiled how can the Postscript ASCII font be used because it is not a font
the PC can display.
The font server has a set of directory paths and the fonts are selectable
with the UNIX tools like xfd, xlsfonts etc. from a UNIX or EXCEED session.
There appears to be no major difference in the display of fonts with the
exception of the OCR font.
QUESTION:
Is there any issues with Exceed using a Type 1 Postscript font file?
Is there some diagnostic that can explain why the font will not display?
The Exceed log did not show anything.
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