BIRT: pdf emitter, load/use fonts from relative path or from jar files

Question

I use BIRT since early days and still have riddles regarding PDF emitter.

Short story: Can I configure fontsConfig.xml to load fonts from relative

Answer 1

There is a way to have fonts on a relative path to be used in Birt.

What you need to do is copy the fonts to a location in your Web Application. Mine was in : C:\\src\main\webapp\Reports

Now in the application, use the following command to register the fonts from the above mentioned location.

FontFactory.registerDirectory( scContext.getRealPath("/Reports") );

This will register the font.

Tested on Birt 4.3 through Spring MVC