Title
Managing soft fonts for PDF conversion

Purpose
You use this report to manage font files (soft fonts) that are requiredin the R/3 System when you convert SAPscript documents into the PDFformat (Adobe Acrobat Format). RSTXPDF2 allows you to
- list fonts
- load fonts from the frontend PC and read their attributes
- load fonts from the frontend PC and upload them into the R/3 System
- delete fonts.

Prerequisites
If you want to import a font file, the file must exist in the format"Adobe Type 1 Fontfile for Windows PC". Normally, these files have theextension ".PFB", that is, "CRR35__I.PFB".
Fonts in TrueType format are currently not supported.

Features

Selection
When importing a font file using the RSTXPDF2 report, you must identifythe SAPscript font type for which the font file is to be used duringPDF conversion. To do this, you use the parameters

• SAP font family


• Font attribute BOLD


• Font attribute ITALIC

The "Use font character set" parameter has been added for Release 4.6C:You use this flag to control how the characters of this font type thatare used in R/3 are to be interpreted.
This flag is switched off by default. In this case, the PDF convertercontrols the coding (called font encoding) of the characters of thefont type. For example, if, in the R/3 character set, the character"adieresis" ("Ä") is in binary position 196 (hexadecimal: C4), thecoding of this character in the PDF file created by the converter isalso preset to 196 for the soft font imported. The PDV converteroverwrites the coding contained in the soft font file with a codingthat is suitable for the R/3 character set.
If this flag is switched off, the coding (encoding) contained in thefont file is adopted unchanged. You are recommended to switch off thisflag for "special fonts" that do not contain normal printablecharacters, but graphical symbols. You must also switch off this flagif the imported font file contains characters that are unknown in theR/3 character list (transaction SPAD, "SAP character set")..
The SAP code page parameter is currently not evaluated and thereforewithout meaning.

Activities
If you encounter problems with font types and PDF conversion, refer tothe following SAP OSS notes:
141901 - Customer-specific fonts for PDF conversion
141343 - PDF conversion (Latin-2 support)
144718 - PDF conversion (CJK support)