Issue with exporting to pdf

Hello,

I have a report that has some text with Chinese characters. When I run the report those Chinese characters are displayed perfectly on the screen. However, when I export the report to pdf instead of the Chinese characters question marks (?) are displayed. Any ideas what can I do so that the Chinese characters are displayed when exported to pdf?

Thank you.

Hi eleanagb80, may I ask how did you get the chinese characters displayed perfectly on screen?

What setting do you have in your SQL and reporting services?

Thanks

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This question has come up before.

I am not sure what the pdf settings are (when they generate the file, I mean). So I have to ask: when you look in the document properties in Adobe reader, under the File menu, do you see the font mappings you expect?

Also, were the fonts you used in the report True Type, or not? Were they Unicode, or not?

One thing: when they display on your screen, characters are displaying in your browser and some additional good stuff is going on client-side.

When they display in a PDF, the fonts are either embedded when the file is generated on the server or fonts are indicated but not embedded, or a subset of the characters in the font can be embedded. I really don't know how the RS generation process decides to do it, and if it's a subset how they decide what the subset is. I haven't done any tests with this.

IAC... if the fonts are embedded, then a lot depends on what was available on the server versus what fonts or font-mappings are available on the client, which is what matters to the browser/HTML presentation.

I know I'm not giving you a solution, just trying to help you see why there can be difference.

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