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I have a simple report with UNICODE characters (Japanese). If I run it, and Save as Adove PDF file, the output is garbled where the UNICODE characters are.

Save as Word, Excel, MHT, etc all work fine ... just PDF is wrong.

I think the font being used for PDF is wrong for UNICODE characters. Is there a way to make Save to PDF work for Unicode?

Thanks!

Hello,

Most of the standard fonts does not contain national characters. In this case Windows uses the "font fallback". This algorithm is very complicated and, therefore, is not realized in the export. To output national characters, please, use the font which contain all necessary characters. For example, the "Arial Unicode MS" font contains many national characters.

Thank you.

I set the font to "Arial Unicode MS" in the designer, but when it is saved and re-opened, it goves back to Arial.

I have attached a simple report with just a label with Japanese characters. How do I modify this so that when it is exported to PDF it shows the Japanese characters correctly?

Thanks@

here is the attachment.

Hello.

The styles have higher priority then font property. The style is set with Arial font.
So you should either change style or set the Allow use font property to false in the Style Designer. Thank you.