10 Uploading Additional Fonts
Oracle recommends that as an initial startup task, the service administrator uploads the TrueType fonts that your company uses to produce reports. This will ensure the most accurate rendering of the documents when viewing on the web.
Without these uploaded fonts, Narrative Reporting uses a font mapping utility that attempts to properly render the report on the web. However, this mapping may introduce variances in the report layout when displayed on the web. Therefore, we highly recommend that you upload your TrueType fonts when you set up the service.
Note:
The system is not redefining or changing the fonts leveraged in the report, the font mapping only applies to the document rendered on the web.
The service administrator can upload individual font files or zipped files containing multiple TrueType fonts to the Fonts folder in the library. You can also organize your font files by creating sub-folders in the Fonts directory.
The font file must be a TrueType font and cannot already exist in the font folder structure. If you do upload a duplicate font, you will receive an error message indicating the duplicate (or invalid) font file. If you uploaded multiple fonts in a zip file, all other valid files will be loaded.
When uploading a font, you must ensure whether that font has any variants such as Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic fonts which are part of the font family itself. In this case, you may want to upload the complete font family as a zip file instead of uploading the regular font file that will be used within the system.
For more details about font family and its variants can be found here Microsoft Font library.
Note:
You can migrate font files like any other artifact from one environment to another or within the same environment. You can migrate using the export, download, and import functionality in the library. See Migrate Artifacts.
To upload additional font files:
Note:
When uploading additional fonts to Narrative Reporting, you are responsible for the proper licensing of the fonts from the font vendor. For example, if you upload the Microsoft font "Times New Roman," you must obtain the licensing from Microsoft to do so. Uploading a Microsoft font sourced from a Windows machine is not typically covered by the legal use agreement from Microsoft.