Hi.
We need to show a new report in our website giving the users the chance to download it (using Export to PDF). Users are complaining about the decreasing font size issue seeing the remarkable differences between two reports, the one shown in the website, which displayed the actual Verdana 9, and the PDF exported one, which decreases the font to Verdana 7.5.
We’ve learnt about the solution of changing the registry key entry ForceLargerFonts, but this will affect around 200 already developed reports which are produced by this server. But we need to set ForceLargerFonts for this particular report...
So the questions are:
- Is there a way to implement ForceLargerFonts per report? We’ve found this thread http://scn.sap.com/thread/1893426 from 2011 and we’re wondering if there has been any progress since then.
- Is there some tool to mass-convert our already developed reports? I.e. some tool to convert the fonts of the existing reports to the size actually displayed in the PDF, so we can then set ForceLargerFonts in that server.
- It’s also mentioned in that thread that ForceLargerFonts have to be used with care, since you may get into issues where text becomes hidden or overlaps. Is there a KB article giving more details about these issues? We haven’t been able to find any.
- Any other idea somebody has come up with? We really don’t know how to proceed with this, setting ForceLargerFonts and then manually changing 200 reports is unfeasible for us, and then there’s the issue of the problems we may run into down the road. But we really need to fix this new report.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Regina
