Understanding the Use of Fonts in BI Publisher

When using PDF output, with the exception of Adobe’s Base 14 (Type 1) fonts, all other truetype fonts are subset and embedded into the PDF.

BI Publisher is configured by default to use the fonts directory <PS_HOME>\fonts\truetype, for any of its pre-defined truetype fonts. This includes the Go Noto set of fonts, which is the default fallback font used for foreign language character support, as well as for other special characters such as bullet points, check box glyphs, and so on.

In previous releases of PeopleTools, BI Publisher required these predefined fonts to exist under the active JRE’s lib\fonts folder, for example, <PS_HOME>\jre\lib\fonts. This is no longer required, and BI Publisher is configured to access the fonts directly from the fonts directory.

See Fusion Middleware Report Designer's guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher, “Setting Report Processing and Output Document Properties”, “Define Font Mappings”, “Predefined Fonts,” for a list of all BI Publisher pre-defined Type 1 and truetype fonts.