- Christopher Craft
- PowerBuilder
- Tuesday, 2 July 2019 11:08 PM UTC
PB 2017 R3
We delivered our latest software on R3 and it didn't take long for a customer to report that his PDFs now show all weird characters when viewing on his iPhone. I had them set the option in the PB.INI file and everything was fine after that but it now raises some questions. When deploying our application I had assumed that 'Custom Fonts' was a low use case but come to find out the 'Calibri' font is not found on iOS. Since this report was fine using GhostScript I am guessing either GS packages the font by default or it always translates the font to something else before it saves as PDF. I am a little hesitant to deliver this setting on because of the resulting file size but it sounds like I might have since PDF's should be viewable on any device! So my questions are:
1) Has anyone else delivered this setting on?
2) Is there something I should be aware of when using this option?
3) Is there a downside beyond the file size?
4) Is there a place I can find the Fonts that are 'Custom' (I know but I have to ask)?
5) Can NativePDF do what GS did regarding fonts (whatever that is)?
Thanks again,
Chris Craft
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