I have a True Type barcode font. When I print the report in the desktop version of the application, the font displays correctly with the bars, but when printing via AnyScreen, the font doesn’t display correctly. Typically, in these cases, simply installing the font on the server is enough to display it correctly in the desktop version, but when using the same application on the web via AnyScreen, it doesn’t display correctly. Does anyone know if I need to configure anything in AnyScreen to recognize the font?
You might find it useful to post also on the sv.clarion.anyscreen newsgroup.
I sent an email to SOFTVELOCITY support reporting this situation, and will wait to see if they respond!
This looks like a problem with the tool used to convert the report to PDF, not directly with Anyscreen.
I think Anyscreen offers a few options, so maybe you could try another one.
So I realized here that true type fonts that seem not common to AnyScreen, it does not recognize if you use a created true type font and install it on Windows, AnyScreen does not recognize it, it only works in the DESKTOP version, so I think you have to do something to it so that it recognizes it in the AnyScreen documentation I did not find anything about fonts!
We had on our side a similar situation using PDF Tools to generate de PDF documents and like you those contain barcodes.
Desktop worked beautifully but via NetTalk or serving the same reports via a browser (and all the things this implies) , the barcodes showed like yours.
IN our case, in PDF Tools we embedded the barcode fonts and that solve our situation. That will make the PDF document bigger, but you almost have the warranty that it will show correctly.
Hope this helps or at least give you some direction
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Urayan, do you have the link to purchase PDF TOOLS? SV technical support also suggested incorporating the barcode font into the print driver they use in Anyscreen, which in this case is PDF ARCHTECH, but it didn’t work!
PDF Tools are not purchasable any more.
Sadly is not purchasable anymore.
I dont know what type of app AnyScreen is, or its manifest settings, so the below are possibilities which could be a factor.
##Vector fonts:
Using TrueType (or OpenType) fonts in your application is crucial, as these are vector-based and scale smoothly when the application is DPI-aware.
Might be a factor.
printerDriverIsolation
Specifies whether printer driver isolation is enabled. TRUE indicates that it is enabled. It has no attributes. Printer driver isolation improves the reliability of the Windows print service by enabling printer drivers to run in processes that are separate from the process in which the print spooler runs.
Application manifests - Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn
If Anyscreen is a UWP.
Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
An important development in Windows 10 is the Universal Windows Platform (UWP): a converged app platform allowing a developer to create a single app that can run on all Windows devices. Windows fonts are one aspect of this convergence: Windows 10 introduces a recommended UWP font set that is common across all editions that support UWP, including Desktop, Server, and Xbox.
TTF font overview.