Chinese Characters Wrap Outside Right Margin When Using Simsun Font (Doc ID 2153112.1)

Last updated on APRIL 24, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Running a report with some Chinese characters included will wrap lines incorrectly. That is, some of the lines are overflowing outside the field boundary on right side. 

For Example:

Already attempted the following, but the problem persists:

• Set Left, Center, Right and Flush justified, and all behave the same way. There are some records that overflow out of the box with all justifications.
• Field elasticity set to Vertical=Expand or Variable, and Horizontal=Fixed.
• Set REPORTS_SPACE_BREAK=NO in registry does not fix it.
• Creating a dummy printer allows it to be much better; however, it still has some overflow.
• Using MingLiU font works, but this is not a feasible workaround for client.
• Same overflow behavior with both Simsun and Arial Unicode fonts.
• Enable PDF subsetting:

[ PDF:Subset ]
SimSun="simsun.ttc,0"
"Arial Unicode MS" = "ARIALUNI.TTF"

• Set REPORTS_DEFAULT_PIXEL_SIZE, but the issue still persist.  Sample settings in registry:

 REPORTS_DEFAULT_DISPLAY=YES
 REPORTS_DEFAULT_PIXEL_SIZE=200

Other values attempted with no difference:
REPORTS_DEFAULT_PIXEL_SIZE=100
REPORTS_DEFAULT_PIXEL_SIZE=75
REPORTS_DEFAULT_PIXEL_SIZE=72
 

On Unix, when set "*DefaultResolution: 305dpi" in screenprinter.ppd, the output appears to be fine.  Sample entry in screenprinter.ppd file:

*DefaultResolution: 305

 However, this does not apply to Windows.

Cause

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