PDF Language/Font Problem

Anyone come across this one:
I have a report that has to print out its figures in Euros or Dollars - I
pass in the locale code as a parameter (DE-DE or EN-US) respectively and
change the language of the report to one of those values via an expression.
The report runs, looks fine on any PC over the web. US countries have their
figures preceded by a $, European countries figures are preceded by a Euro
symbol. When I come to export the results to PDF, again its fine on my PC,
but the same report exported on seemingly arbitrary PC's elsewhere in the
building have the numerical figures garbled into some unrecognisable font.
Any ideas?
MickIf anyone is interested, this was an Adobe issue - v5 doesn't support the
Euro symbol (upgrading to V6 solved the problem)
"Mick Horne" <mick.horne@.conchango.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone come across this one:
> I have a report that has to print out its figures in Euros or Dollars - I
> pass in the locale code as a parameter (DE-DE or EN-US) respectively and
> change the language of the report to one of those values via an
expression.
> The report runs, looks fine on any PC over the web. US countries have
their
> figures preceded by a $, European countries figures are preceded by a Euro
> symbol. When I come to export the results to PDF, again its fine on my
PC,
> but the same report exported on seemingly arbitrary PC's elsewhere in the
> building have the numerical figures garbled into some unrecognisable font.
> Any ideas?
> Mick
>

PDF export can't handle special characters?

I have a field on my report which needs to show an amount in Euros, so I have the Euro (â?¬) symbol in the report. This looks fine when I render the report in HTML and Excel, but when I render in PDF the text is all messed up. This also happens for some other characters with an ASCII code above 127...
Is this a known problem and how can we solve it?
Thanks,
VincentRelated posts:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs&mid=a199e6c6-c2e4-40d6-a89d-3f991a02cf3e
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs&mid=be0ab01e-7550-42c1-9617-13f3fb442cef
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"Vincent" <Vincent@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a field on my report which needs to show an amount in Euros, so I
have the Euro (â?¬) symbol in the report. This looks fine when I render the
report in HTML and Excel, but when I render in PDF the text is all messed
up. This also happens for some other characters with an ASCII code above
127...
> Is this a known problem and how can we solve it?
> Thanks,
> Vincent
>|||Thanks for the related posts. This is indeed related to the version of the Acrobat Reader (works as of version 6.0), but I have also found a workaround for people who can only use Acrobat Reader 5.0:
Avoid the usage of Arial, Courier and Times New Roman as font type, since these are the fonts that can not be displayed properly with the euro symbol. Alternative could be Arial Unicode MS, Garamond, Microsoft Sans Serif or Verdana, these all look OK when I tested this.
I will also update the other posts, since this is interesting stuff!
"Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)" wrote:
> Related posts:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs&mid=a199e6c6-c2e4-40d6-a89d-3f991a02cf3e
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs&mid=be0ab01e-7550-42c1-9617-13f3fb442cef
> --
> Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)
> SQL Server Reporting Services
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> "Vincent" <Vincent@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9D40C734-F1A8-47CA-809E-2008EFD6E338@.microsoft.com...
> > I have a field on my report which needs to show an amount in Euros, so I
> have the Euro (ââ'¬) symbol in the report. This looks fine when I render the
> report in HTML and Excel, but when I render in PDF the text is all messed
> up. This also happens for some other characters with an ASCII code above
> 127...
> >
> > Is this a known problem and how can we solve it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vincent
> >
>
>|||I am having the same problem in displaying Greek. Works fine on acrobat 6
and I am using Courier New. My problem is that I can not avoid Courier
because I need the font to be fixed font instead of True Type (I am
displaying text that need to be aligned). Is there another Fixed Type font
that will work with Greek (or special characters) for Acrobat 5?
"Vincent" wrote:
> Thanks for the related posts. This is indeed related to the version of the Acrobat Reader (works as of version 6.0), but I have also found a workaround for people who can only use Acrobat Reader 5.0:
> Avoid the usage of Arial, Courier and Times New Roman as font type, since these are the fonts that can not be displayed properly with the euro symbol. Alternative could be Arial Unicode MS, Garamond, Microsoft Sans Serif or Verdana, these all look OK when I tested this.
> I will also update the other posts, since this is interesting stuff!
> "Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)" wrote:
> > Related posts:
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs&mid=a199e6c6-c2e4-40d6-a89d-3f991a02cf3e
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs&mid=be0ab01e-7550-42c1-9617-13f3fb442cef
> >
> > --
> > Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)
> > SQL Server Reporting Services
> >
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> > "Vincent" <Vincent@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:9D40C734-F1A8-47CA-809E-2008EFD6E338@.microsoft.com...
> > > I have a field on my report which needs to show an amount in Euros, so I
> > have the Euro (ââ'¬) symbol in the report. This looks fine when I render the
> > report in HTML and Excel, but when I render in PDF the text is all messed
> > up. This also happens for some other characters with an ASCII code above
> > 127...
> > >
> > > Is this a known problem and how can we solve it?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Vincent
> > >
> >
> >
> >