Defining Font Mappings

BI Publisher's Font Mapping feature enables you to map base fonts in RTF or PDF templates to target fonts to be used in the published document.

Font Mappings can be specified at the site or report level. Font mapping is performed only for PDF output and PowerPoint output.

There are two types of font mappings:

• RTF Templates — for mapping fonts from RTF templates and XSL-FO templates to PDF and PowerPoint output fonts

• PDF Templates — for mapping fonts from PDF templates to different PDF output fonts.

Making Fonts Available to BI Publisher

BI Publisher provides a set of Type1 fonts and a set of TrueType fonts. You can select any of the fonts in these sets as a target font with no additional setup required.

For a list of the predefined fonts see BI Publisher Predefined Fonts.

The predefined fonts are located in $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/fonts. To map to another font, place the font in this directory to make it available to BI Publisher at run time. If the environment is clustered, then you must place the font on every server.

Setting Font Mapping at the Site Level or Report Level

A font mapping can be defined at the site level or the report level.

• To set a mapping at the site level, select the Font Mappings link from the Administration page.

• To set a mapping at the report level, view the Properties for the report, then select the Font Mappings tab. These settings apply to the selected report only.

The report-level settings take precedence over the site-level settings.

Creating a Font Mapping

From the Administration page, under Runtime Configuration, select Font Mappings.

To create a Font Mapping:

1. Under RTF Templates or PDF Templates, select Add Font Mapping.

2. Enter the following on the Add Font Mapping page:

   • Base Font — enter the font family to map to a new font. Example: Arial

   • Select the Style: Normal or Italic (Not applicable to PDF Template font mappings)

   • Select the Weight: Normal or Bold (Not applicable to PDF Template font mappings)

   • Select the Target Font Type: Type 1 or TrueType

   • Enter the Target Font

     If you selected TrueType, you can enter a specific numbered font in the collection. Enter the TrueType Collection (TTC) Number of the desired font.

     For a list of the predefined fonts see BI Publisher Predefined Fonts.

BI Publisher Predefined Fonts

The following Type1 fonts are built-in to Adobe Acrobat and BI Publisher provides a mapping for these fonts by default.

You can select any of these fonts as a target font with no additional setup required.

The Type1 fonts are listed in the table below.

Number	Font Family	Style	Weight	Font Name
1	serif	normal	normal	Time-Roman
1	serif	normal	bold	Times-Bold
1	serif	italic	normal	Times-Italic
1	serif	italic	bold	Times-BoldItalic
2	sans-serif	normal	normal	Helvetica
2	sans-serif	normal	bold	Helvetica-Bold
2	sans-serif	italic	normal	Helvetica-Oblique
2	sans-serif	italic	bold	Helvetica-BoldOblique
3	monospace	normal	normal	Courier
3	monospace	normal	bold	Courier-Bold
3	monospace	italic	normal	Courier-Oblique
3	monospace	italic	bold	Courier-BoldOblique
4	Courier	normal	normal	Courier
4	Courier	normal	bold	Courier-Bold
4	Courier	italic	normal	Courier-Oblique
4	Courier	italic	bold	Courier-BoldOblique
5	Helvetica	normal	normal	Helvetica
5	Helvetica	normal	bold	Helvetica-Bold
5	Helvetica	italic	normal	Helvetica-Oblique
5	Helvetica	italic	bold	Helvetica-BoldOblique
6	Times	normal	normal	Times
6	Times	normal	bold	Times-Bold
6	Times	italic	normal	Times-Italic
6	Times	italic	bold	Times-BoldItalic
7	Symbol	normal	normal	Symbol
8	ZapfDingbats	normal	normal	ZapfDingbats

The TrueType fonts are listed in the table below. All TrueType fonts are subset and embedded into PDF.

Number	Font Family Name	Style	Weight	Actual Font	Actual Font Type
1	Albany WT	normal	normal	ALBANYWT.ttf	TrueType (Latin1 only)
2	Albany WT J	normal	normal	ALBANWTJ.ttf	TrueType (Japanese flavor)
3	Albany WT K	normal	normal	ALBANWTK.ttf	TrueType (Korean flavor)
4	Albany WT SC	normal	normal	ALBANWTS.ttf	TrueType (Simplified Chinese flavor)
5	Albany WT TC	normal	normal	ALBANWTT.ttf	TrueType (Traditional Chinese flavor)
6	Andale Duospace WT	normal	normal	ADUO.ttf	TrueType (Latin1 only, Fixed width)
6	Andale Duospace WT	bold	bold	ADUOB.ttf	TrueType (Latin1 only, Fixed width)
7	Andale Duospace WT J	normal	normal	ADUOJ.ttf	TrueType (Japanese flavor, Fixed width)
7	Andale Duospace WT J	bold	bold	ADUOJB.ttf	TrueType (Japanese flavor, Fixed width)
8	Andale Duospace WT K	normal	normal	ADUOK.ttf	TrueType (Korean flavor, Fixed width)
8	Andale Duospace WT K	bold	bold	ADUOKB.ttf	TrueType (Korean flavor, Fixed width)
9	Andale Duospace WT SC	normal	normal	ADUOSC.ttf	TrueType (Simplified Chinese flavor, Fixed width)
9	Andale Duospace WT SC	bold	bold	ADUOSCB.ttf	TrueType (Simplified Chinese flavor, Fixed width)
10	Andale Duospace WT TC	normal	normal	ADUOTC.ttf	TrueType (Traditional Chinese flavor, Fixed width)
10	Andale Duospace WT TC	bold	bold	ADUOTCB.ttf	TrueType (Traditional Chinese flavor, Fixed width)

Managing Custom Fonts

BI Publisher includes a standard set of fonts. Using manage custom fonts you can upload external fonts apart from the BI Publisher's inbuilt fonts.

To manage custom fonts

1. Navigate to the Manage Custom Fonts section in Administration > Font Mappings page.
2. Click Choose File and select the external font file.
   You have the option to either overwrite or delete the font files.
3. To use the new font, define the font mapping for RTF or PDF template. See Defining Font Mappings.