Deploying Barcode Fonts used in a BIRT document on AIX

Hello out there
 
I am working with a client who will be deploying BIRT templates (letters) to an AIX server. These letters each contain two barcodes - one is a postal service barcode (IMB) and another is a 2 of 5 Interleaved barcode for use in the print operations. During development under Windows using BIRT 4.2.2 we have been using true type fonts installed within the Control Panel of Windows -- this has worked fine and produces nicely readable barcodes.
 
Now we have to deploy to Unix / AIX. I have very little experience with that O/S (or how fonts work on any UNix platform). Does anyone out there have any advice on how we should get these fonts to the runtime platform?...would they still be TrueType or do we need to convert them somehow.
 
Regards, len

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JFreeman

I do believe you should be able to install TrueType fonts on AIX.
As I recall, there is a specific location in which the TrueType (.ttf) files need to be placed.
 
Take a look at this documentation from IBM as a starting point: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSN2Y_2.0.0.4/com.ibm.tsiem.doc/common/tip_truetype.html'>http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSN2Y_2.0.0.4/com.ibm.tsiem.doc/common/tip_truetype.html</a>
It's about a specific product but it has some paths listed of install True Type fonts in AIX that should help get you started.

lenburt

Yes, thanks -- i found a similar post and we put the fonts in one of those directories in the current fonts xml file and they resolved. Now there is a request to put the fonts in their own application-specific directory on the AIX machine. I think i have to update the xml file in the BIRT runtime JAR file and deploy that. To me that sounds risky, but maybe those on this forum can assure me that this is a standard practice in order to point to an application-specifc font directory. 
 
regards, len

JFreeman

Modifying the fontsConfig.xml is something I have seen done a few times before. If you want to use fonts in a non standard location, that is where the modification needs to be made.
 
I wouldn't be too concerned about it, just make sure to create a backup copy of the rumtime jar before making any modifications.