Embedding fonts ensures that the original fonts selected in the Document Editor are used to display and print the PDF, even on machines that do not have the original fonts installed. No font substitutions are made. It allows you to:
Use language fonts other than Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and Western European in PDFs
Provide
a true Unicode environment, where one document contains different languages
Note: Font embedding is not required if the only languages
used are Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and the matching language fonts
are used instead of a Unicode font.
Create
PDFs containing Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters for any machine,
even one without the corresponding Acrobat Reader language pack
Note: Acrobat Reader cannot display bookmarks in the correct
language font unless the corresponding language pack is installed on the
user’s machine. The remainder of the PDF will display and print the languages
correctly. This Acrobat Reader requirement applies to all languages other
than English and Western European.
Create
truly portable PDFs to email and to publish on the web, even if you do
not have control over the machines that will display and print the PDFs
Note: For a MicroStrategy Web user to view the embedded fonts,
the fonts must be installed on the Intelligence Server machine.
Display bullets, thresholds, and any other objects that require special fonts are displayed correctly if the PDF is displayed on a Kindle or Nook. For more best practices information on designing documents for the Kindle or Nook, see Best practices: Designing documents for the Kindle and Nook.
For more information on embedding fonts, see the MicroStrategy Report Services Document Creation Guide.
To ensure that the document is rendered correctly when creating and editing the document, the fonts must be installed on the MicroStrategy Web machine. The Embed fonts in PDF property ensures that if the fonts used in the document are available on the machine that generates the PDF, the fonts are embedded in the PDF. When you execute a document in Desktop, the PDF is generated by that client machine. When you execute a document on MicroStrategy Web, the PDF is generated by the Intelligence Server machine.
Note: This procedure affects the entire document, including all layouts of a multi-layout document. For more information on multi-layout documents, see Creating multi-layout documents.
Open the document in Design or Editable Mode.
From the Tools menu, select Document Properties. The Properties dialog box opens.
From the left, select Export.
In the PDF area, select the Embed fonts in PDF check box.
Click OK to return to the document.
When you generate the PDF (by clicking the PDF icon on the Standard toolbar), the fonts are embedded in the PDF.
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