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Setup for Executing Report Services Documents

A Strategy Report Services document is used to format data from multiple reports. These documents can be exported to PDF format. To execute documents and export them to PDF format using Strategy Intelligence Server in a Linux environment, you must perform some additional setup tasks.

When Intelligence Server is running on a Linux platform, all fonts are converted to the Courier New font for:

  • Reports exported to PDF format
  • Report Services documents
  • Graphs displayed in Strategy Web

This occurs because the fonts required by the PDF component are missing from Linux machines running Intelligence Server. The missing fonts may include Microsoft True Type fonts.

Strategy does not distribute or license Microsoft fonts, and therefore cannot package Microsoft fonts with Intelligence Server.

To resolve this issue, you must install the font files in the PDFGeneratorFiles folder within the Strategy installation path on the Linux machine, as described below.

To copy fonts to your Linux machine

  1. Log in to your Linux machine that hosts Intelligence Server.
  2. Install the Microsoft True Type fonts. See the pages for information about licensing requirements and installation:
  3. Copy the font files into the INSTALL_PATH/PDFGeneratorFiles directory, where INSTALL_PATH is the directory you specified as the Strategy install directory during installation.
  4. To update the list of fonts available, you must restart the Intelligence Server.