How To Generate An Arabic Pdf File With Oracle Reports 9i And Above

How to Generate an Arabic PDF File with Oracle Reports 9i and Above [iD 212560.1]

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Modified 06-NOV-2008 Type HOWTO Status PUBLISHED

"Checked for relevance on 06-Nov-2008"



•goal: How to Generate Arabic PDF Reports with Oracle Reports 9i
•fact: MS Windows NT
•fact: MS Windows 2000
•fact: Oracle Reports Developer 9i
•fact: DESFORMAT=PDF



fix:

1. Set NLS_LANG=ARABIC_United Arab Emirates.AR8MSWIN1256

2. Set REPORTS_PATH to the system font directoy such as D:\WINNT\Fonts

3. Open uifont.ali under $ORACLE_HOME\tools\common90\, set the font alias
entries at [PDF:Subset] section.

These font name should be the one you are using in your report.
Note: The entries are case sensitive thus file name and font name must match here

[PDF:Subset]

Arial..italic.Bold.. = "arialbi.ttf"
Arial..italic... = "ariali.ttf"
Arial...Bold.. = "arialbd.ttf"
Arial = "arial.ttf"
"Andale Duospace WT J" = "Aduoj.ttf"
"Albany WT J"="AlbanWTJ.ttf"
"Arabic Transparent"="artro.ttf"

4. Ensure that Default Printer Driver used is not an ASCII/Generic driver.
Refer to Note 416804.1: PDF Output Changes Font Arial to DeviceFont10cpi


4. Run the report with DESTYPE=FILE and DESFORMAT=PDF