Adding Multibyte Character Set Fonts for PDF Printing

Single-byte fonts print properly but, while multibyte display properly on screen, an additional configuration step is needed to make them available to the PDF rendering engine.

To install multibyte fonts:

1. Identify the fonts you need.
   For example, for any of the East Asian languages like Chinese, Korean, Hindi, or Japanese, you need the following font files:

   • batang.ttc
   • simsun.ttc
   • mangal.ttf
   • mangalb.ttf

2. Locate those files.

   • If they are already part of your Linux installation, you should find them at /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/
   • If you do not see the files under /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/,

Download the files from web, and place them in /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/ directory OR

Copy the fonts file from /Windows/Fonts/ folder in your Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation to /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/ directory in your Linux environment, as these files are OS-independent.

1. Delete the pd4browser.properties file present under {INSTALL-DIR}/AgileApps/lib.

Note: Take a backup of this file before this operation.

1. Execute the commands to create that configuration file that the PDF rendering engine needs:

   1. cd {install_dir}/AgileApps/lib
      java -jar pd4ml.jar -configure.fonts /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/
      

   2. This step creates the pd4fonts.properties file, which contains a list of fonts and pd4browser.properties file.

2. Restart Tomcat.
   The fonts are now available for use.