Re: [RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 123, Issue 8
Exactly what are the differences between the Linux and Windows versions? Cheers, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Doob Telephone: (204) 474-9796 Department of Mathematics Fax: (204) 474-7606 University of Manitoba email: Michael_Doob@umanitoba.ca Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:54:54 -0500 From: Wyatt Zacharias <wyatt@magitech.ca> To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable@muug.mb.ca> Subject: [RndTbl] PDF Font help Message-ID: <CANd2pR04sVOf4ExJVEhSe4WN6bUkUpAcDmNKZCP-HY22i3YGxw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I'm not all that familiar with the typography world, so I'm hoping someone can lend some insight into a problem I'm having. We have pdf reports generated by Jasper which are created using the Helvetica font. My main problem, is a report generated by Jasper on Windows is slightly different than the one generated by Jasper on Linux. I'm guessing this is an issue with something other than the fonts, but to be sure, my question is does the system generating the pdf need the font installed to use that font? I assume not, since I can inspect the pdf with Acrobat, or the pdffonts command and it confirms that the font used is Helvetica. My second question, is if the pdf is being created properly, would it render improperly on a desktop that does not have Helvetica installed? If I need to have the font installed, where can I find plain old Helvetica? As I said, I'm not familiar with typography, but I can find every variety out there of helvetica, except straight up "Helvetica". -- Wyatt Zacharias
This is what it looks like when generated on a windows system. [image: Inline image 1] And this is from Linux [image: Inline image 2] Yes, they are a different report, but they're both made with the same jrxml file to define the layout. It's hard to say what the issue is at this point, since my workstation doesn't have "Helvetica" installed which is what the PDF is using, and the font isn't embedded because the Linux server doesn't have it either. Since the pdf is referencing "Helvetica" that's the font that I'm trying to find, but I'm not having any luck. I can find lots of variants, but none that are an actual match. -- Wyatt Zacharias On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Michael Doob <Michael.Doob@umanitoba.ca> wrote:
Exactly what are the differences between the Linux and Windows versions?
Cheers, Michael
------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Doob Telephone: (204) 474-9796 Department of Mathematics Fax: (204) 474-7606 University of Manitoba email: Michael_Doob@umanitoba.ca Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2 ------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 2 Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:54:54 -0500 From: Wyatt Zacharias <wyatt@magitech.ca> To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable@muug.mb.ca> Subject: [RndTbl] PDF Font help Message-ID: < CANd2pR04sVOf4ExJVEhSe4WN6bUkUpAcDmNKZCP-HY22i3YGxw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
I'm not all that familiar with the typography world, so I'm hoping someone can lend some insight into a problem I'm having.
We have pdf reports generated by Jasper which are created using the Helvetica font. My main problem, is a report generated by Jasper on Windows is slightly different than the one generated by Jasper on Linux. I'm guessing this is an issue with something other than the fonts, but to be sure, my question is does the system generating the pdf need the font installed to use that font? I assume not, since I can inspect the pdf with Acrobat, or the pdffonts command and it confirms that the font used is Helvetica.
My second question, is if the pdf is being created properly, would it render improperly on a desktop that does not have Helvetica installed? If I need to have the font installed, where can I find plain old Helvetica? As I said, I'm not familiar with typography, but I can find every variety out there of helvetica, except straight up "Helvetica".
-- Wyatt Zacharias
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