How to embed a Font in a PDF with RDLC

Question

hi,

i am using Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.LocalReport to generate some PDF, everything works like a charm, but now evil marketing wants to use a custom font (they are using such crazy arguments as "corporate identity" and stuff).

i already goggled around and now i know that

• i need ReportViewer 2008 SP1 or greater
• the font has to be marked as embedding allowed
• the font has to be TrueType

but it still doesn't work. i belief that RDLC does not support this feature, does anybody know if this is the case? unfortunately i cant use Server-side reports cause i am lacking a Reporting Server.

tia

Answer 1

A work mate of mine has the same problem. Did you find any solution or does anyone else have a solution to this?

Answer 2

I've done a simple test using Arial Narrow font with Visual Studio 2008 and it worked fine. I've tested the generated PDF on virtual XP machine that doesn't have the font and it rendered ok. Perhaps it's a problem with the font?

Hmm, perhaps it's this - in my test I've used Winforms.LocalReport not WebForms. Perhaps that's the trick?