Hello guys,
I got a problem with some selfmade PDF formula, because in some cases all the text is displayed like:
The formula is only created in German. The language in which it is displayed depends on communicaton language of the vendor, but no matter what it is the text should be displayed in English, so there will not be any special language characters which could be the reason for it.
Due to some other formular where I got the same problem, I found out that the reason for it causes of some fonts problems with HELVETICA. The whole formula is created in ARIAL font, but in our custom_xfa.xci file there is the transformation from ARIAL to HELVETICA and when opened the PDF file I got the error message that HELVETICA could not be found.
For that old formula I just did an entry in table FPFONTREPL and overwrote the default transformation with it which leads to some new transformation from ARIAL to ARIAL. This helped, but in this case it did not.
The funny thing is it works with every language that I choose in the vendor communciation except Turkish. When I do it with the same vendor e.g. in Bulgarian language, it works. But in both cases there are always English words in the formula.
So what is the problem with turkish? There are some other tables like V_SXDEVTYPL where I can put for every language a separate device type and for Turkey there is some separate, but I tried with others as well and nothing was changed. And I think the table/view is not the right way, because it looks like it is for transformation from SAPscript/Smartforms to PDF (btw. I do not have any idea when something is transformated then?) and not for PDF only?
The only thing that helped was changing the transformation rule in file custom_xfa.xci to ARIAL TO ARIAL. But this is for every formula and I do not know what effect it has on other formula.
So is there any other way for it? Or can anyone be so kind an help me understanding how this whole font transformation works in PDF?
Thanks a lot!
Regards
Michael