Embedded Fonts anytime soon?

Hi,
Does anyone know if Microsoft is planning to support embedded fonts in the
near future?
We have been using Crystal Reports for our reporting. We are trying out
Reporting Services for the new reports and we like what we see so far, but
there is one major issue: embedded fonts.
We have lots of customers lined up that require the use of OCRA and Barcode
fonts in their pdf documents. Installing these fonts on each client machine
is not an option.
If there is no such plan to include embedded fonts in the near future, we
may have to go back to Crystal Reports.
Thanks,
George
Thanks,
GeorgeGeorge,
From what I understand, the font must be installed on the report server
itself and of course, you must have had it installed on your designer
workstation when you designed the report. Have you done a test?
As an example, we use the font Ariel Unicode to properly display our
diatrics properly - but the legal way to have this font is to install
Microsoft Word - so we now have our customers install MS Word 2003 on the
web server to get this font.
=-Chris
"george tharakan" <georgetharakan@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:C7373491-754E-4F4F-A277-7BF35840E4E5@.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> Does anyone know if Microsoft is planning to support embedded fonts in the
> near future?
> We have been using Crystal Reports for our reporting. We are trying out
> Reporting Services for the new reports and we like what we see so far, but
> there is one major issue: embedded fonts.
> We have lots of customers lined up that require the use of OCRA and
> Barcode
> fonts in their pdf documents. Installing these fonts on each client
> machine
> is not an option.
> If there is no such plan to include embedded fonts in the near future, we
> may have to go back to Crystal Reports.
> Thanks,
> George
> Thanks,
> George|||Hi Chris,
I do have the font installed on the reportserver and on the designer
workstation. My reports are exported to PDF. When I view the reports on my
machine I get to see the Barcode and OCRA fonts. When I view the report on a
machine which doesnt have these fonts , the fonts just don't show up. The
issue has to do with embedding fonts with the pdf, in which case the fonts
will show up on all client machines. I know that currently RS doesnt support
embedding fonts. There were some rumours that they might consider something
in a future release. Would just like to hear from them regarding a more
specific timeframe.
If it's like in a couple of months, we could wait, else we have to do this
in crystal.
Thanks|||George - what would happen if you save that PDF file on your local machine,
then go over to the machine that doesn't have this font and open the PDF
document - does it render the PDF correctly?
=-Chris
"george tharakan" <georgetharakan@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:53CD3E02-4BE2-4B5A-A337-EC0D5D005739@.microsoft.com...
> Hi Chris,
> I do have the font installed on the reportserver and on the designer
> workstation. My reports are exported to PDF. When I view the reports on my
> machine I get to see the Barcode and OCRA fonts. When I view the report on
> a
> machine which doesnt have these fonts , the fonts just don't show up. The
> issue has to do with embedding fonts with the pdf, in which case the fonts
> will show up on all client machines. I know that currently RS doesnt
> support
> embedding fonts. There were some rumours that they might consider
> something
> in a future release. Would just like to hear from them regarding a more
> specific timeframe.
> If it's like in a couple of months, we could wait, else we have to do this
> in crystal.
> Thanks|||Chris,
No lucj with that either. The pdf shows correctly only on the machine that
has the font installed.
Thanks,
George