Re: Installing OCR font
From: Victor Polsky (
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Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 16:33:45 EDT
1. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) fonts are not a part of default
Solaris font package and are added by customer. Probably you
created new directory for these fonts and included this directory in
SetFontPath request sent to X Server by his application.This is OK
if X server runs on the same host as X app but not enough
for remote X Server like Exceed. Exceed can not directly access
fonts in host font directories, only thru X Font Server.
I suspect, you have not modified configuration file of X Font
Server to include directory with OCR fonts or if you did , you are not using
modified
file.
2. In case if user wants to include OCR (or any other TrueType) font
into local font database of Exceed 7.1
he should at first add this font to Windows fonts
(using Control Panel if this is TrueType font or
using third party software like Adobe Font Manager for Postscript Type 1
fonts).
Than he could use Xconfig to make Window font for Exceed. TrueType
font does not have logical name as X fonts do. The logical name is just
emulated by Xconfig to make TrueType font look like Xfont to Exceed.
X app does not know this name, so, font name used by X app
must be assigned as alias to the emulated logical name.
I suspect, you missed this last step; "alias" is not mentioned in
your email.
Second problem might be encoding. Strictly speaking OCR fonts are not
standard fonts: they contain only capital characters plus some additional
glyphs
that do not belong to standard character set. It would be helpful if we
could see it.
3. It's hard to say why "The EXCEED log file did not show any errors"
We need to see this file.
Please create log files with "Log Font Opens" enabled ! when
a/ running the application,
b/ running "xfd" or "xlsfonts"
Victor
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Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 3:50 PM
Subject: Installing OCR font
> 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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