crystal renders wrong fonts on iseries

[krysna]

We have an application that runs on both Windows and on iSeries. We are using Crystal Reports to render our reports, and we always export them to PDF to display. When we render them on Windows, they look as expected. When we render them on iSeries, however, the fonts are arbitrarily different. It used to be that the font was just "fatter" (i.e. the letters took up more horizontal space on the page); however, last week, we changed to using the latest jars for release 2, and now several of the fields are displayed in a font with serifs (possibly Times New Roman). Our reports are designed to print using Arial. Is this a problem where the expected font is simply unavailable on the iSeries system and so it is picking another font at random to use instead? I would think that Arial would be available on any system, but it's iSeries, so who knows. If this is indeed the problem, how do I find out what fonts are available? And if it's not the problem, what can I do to make Crystal render my reports the way I want it to?

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
See if this helps:

http://forums.systeminetwork.com/isnetforums/showthread.php?t=42936

or

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/rzalu/rzalureffontinfo.htm

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