Use Fonts on CMIS

Dear all,
I am currently developing a small application which is to be hosted on a cloud space (platform as a service). As you can imagine there is no way of accessing the filesystem on the cloud platform. However there is a CMIS service available for the cloud platform. I want to be flexible regarding the report design and the used fonts. Reading the report design from the CMIS service and using it for the generation of the PDFs is not a problem. However I want to be able to use and embed fonts stored in the CMIS service. Is there any way to acomplish this? Can any kind soul out there point me to the right direction?
 
kind regards
 
 
unimatrix

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Clement Wong

I'm not sure how your CMIS is setup relative to your BIRT application. In order to use fonts so that BIRT when exports to PDF for embedding, the JVM running your BIRT application must have access to the fonts.
 
Take a look at this recent post about how fonts are used when exporting PDFs from BIRT:
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://developer.actuate.com/community/forum/index.php?/topic/39439-missing-vietnamese-alphabets-in-pdf/?p=144792'>http://developer.actuate.com/community/forum/index.php?/topic/39439-missing-vietnamese-alphabets-in-pdf/?p=144792</a>

unimatrix

Sorry for the late reply but vacation had higher priority ;-) 

The problem is that in the cloud environment where BIRT is going to be used I'll have no access to the "normal" filesystem. (I doubt that there will be any cloud platform where you have access to the filesystem ;-)) What I want to achieve is:
 
<ul><li>Upload a report design to the CMIS service which comes with the cloud platform and load the report design into BIRT using a CMIS framework (Apache Chemistry). This already works but is related to the next requirement.</li>
<li>Changed report designs can use different fonts. Therefore I want to be able to load Fonts into the BIRT Engine / IText from the CMIS Service using Apache Chemistry (or any other technology)</li>
</ul>In my opinion having the possibility to load Fonts from a "non-filesystem" location would be a great improvement to BIRT!
 
kind regards
 
 
unimatrix