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Customized Font Settings in the P6 Professional 'PM.ini' File Are Not Reflected in the P6 Professional Application (Doc ID 2950860.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Applies to:

Primavera P6 Professional Project Management - Version 8.3 to 22.12.10.0 [Release 8.3 to 22.12]
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Cloud Service - Version 16.2.0.0 to 23.11 [Release 16.2 to 23.11]
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management - Version 8.3 to 22.12.10.0 [Release 8.3 to 22.12]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR

After making changes to the fonts listed in the [Fonts] section of the P6 Professional PM.ini file, the desired fonts do not display in the application.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

The P6 Professional application should use the fonts specified in the [Fonts] section of the P6 Professional PM.ini file.

The issue can be reproduced at will using the following steps:

  1. Browse to the folder containing the PM.ini file (ex C:\Users\<user?\AppData\<Local OR Roaming>\Oracle\Primavera P6\P6 Professional\<version>\).
  2. Open the PM.ini file in a text editor (ex. Notepad).
  3. Modify one or more entries in the [Fonts] section to change the <area>FontName and/or <area>FontSize value(s).
  4. Save the changes and close the editor.
  5. Log into P6 Professional, open a Project and navigate to the appropriate view/section where the font(s) was customized.
  6. Note that the font displayed has not changed from the default.

Changes

 

Cause

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