Starting with the release of Strategy ONE (March 2024), dossiers are also known as dashboards.
The intent of this article is to provide information to accomplish the user's needs. Use of the information in this article is at the user's own risk. The Strategy Intelligence Server Universal 9.x-10.5 product is shipped with one default font, Courier New. Any exported documents, reports, or graphs generated by Strategy Intelligence Server Universal 9.x-10.x will default to using this font if the font with which that object was designed is not available for use by the Intelligence Server.
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Microsoft started a project in 1996 called "Core Fonts for the Web" which included the above-mentioned fonts. Microsoft released these fonts under a freeware license, but with some restrictions on redistribution (namely that the fonts could only be redistributed by 3rd parties if the file names remained the same and the EULA was made available). This explains why these fonts are not included in Strategy Products.
When exporting the document to PDF, the Intelligence Server retrieves the font information from the document definition in the metadata. Fonts specified in the document/report design that are installed on the Intelligence Server machine are rendered properly in the PDF (KB221589), and fonts that are not installed on the Intelligence Server machine are substituted with the Courier New font, as this font is included with the Intelligence Server and will therefore always exist.
Since the web browsers use the font approximation substitution logic but the Intelligence Server simply replaces any fonts not installed with Courier New, the document designer and users running the document in Strategy Web may not ever be aware that the selected font is not installed on the Intelligence Server until the document is exported to PDF (KB237739).
Strategy Web provides most widely-used fonts as options in the selection menu when creating documents. The existence of a font in the selection menu does not imply that the font is available for display or export on the Intelligence Server or in the client machines (KB13668). As most web browsers will automatically substitute similar fonts if the specified font is not found, it may be possible to use fonts that are not actually installed without any visible notification or ill effects in Strategy Web.
For example:
/opt/Strategy/install/PDFGeneratorFiles
Usually at the following path:
/usr/share/fonts/
fc-cache -fv
These files are used when the code page of the font is not Unicode; hence failing to include these .cmap files will cause the exporting to fail when the code page of the font is not Unicode.
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WARNING
The intent of this article is to provide information to accomplish the user's needs. Use of the information in this article is at the user's own risk.
Users should note that fonts are Intellectual Property and their usage may be restricted by license terms. Users are responsible for and must obtain appropriate licenses for any fonts that are to be used on Unix/Linux machines with Strategy. Users may reference the information at this link, which lists several sources for the Microsoft Core fonts package and also lists the licensing conditions governing the use of that package. The Microsoft core fonts (Wikipedia) are not hosted by Strategy and therefore cannot be obtained from Strategy; however, they are legally hosted by third parties.
The third-party product(s) discussed in this technical note is manufactured by vendors independent of Strategy. Strategy makes no warranty, express, implied or otherwise, regarding this product, including its performance or reliability.
