Steps to Configure Unicode Fonts in Oracle Reports

Step 1 .   Install the required font to the Server

                A.  Steps to install fonts to server

                A.1 )  Create a directory for new fonts

     Ex -  #  mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype

             A.2) Copy the font to the above directory 
             A.3)  Navigate to the directory & Execute below Commands

                # mkfontscale && mkfontdir
               # fc-cache

                A.4)  Add the new font directory to the X11 font path

                # chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/truetype

                A.5) Restart X font server

                # /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart

Step 2 .  Copy the Fonts to the Below Folder & change the ownership to the app server user

                 $ORACLE_INSTANCE/reports/fonts/

Step 3 .   Add the Fonts to [PDF:Subset] section in uifont.ali File as follows. 

Ex - 

[PDF:Subset]

"Khmer OS System"="KhmerOS_sys.ttf"

"Khmer OS"="KhmerOS.ttf"

 Step 4 .   To display fonts in Styles use the settings as follows in uifont.ali file.

 Ex -

[PDF:Subset]

"Roboto"..Italic.Bold..="Roboto-BoldItalic.ttf"

"Roboto"...Bold..="Roboto-Bold.ttf"

"Roboto"..Italic...="Roboto-Italic.ttf"

             "Roboto".....="Roboto-Regular.ttf"

 Step 5.   To Enable Unicode fonts In report, Change the  

                NLS_LANG To  AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8  in            

                $ORACLE_INSTANCE /config/reports/bin/reports.sh

 I.e.  NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8;

Step 6.   To Effect the changes Restart the opmnctl

Please Note

This font configuration Document Created based on Khmer & Roboto font configuration