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  • Stop the Live Forms server
  • Uncompress/expand the frevvo.war file to a temporary location on your desktop. This is typically located here: <frevvo-home>/tomcat/webapps/frevvo.war.
  • Add your font file (unifont.tff file is an example) to the WEB-INF/fonts directory.
  • Re-WAR to create a new updated frevvo.war file.
  • Replace the original frevvo.war file with the new updated frevvo.war file, typically located here: <frevvo-home>/tomcat/webapps/frevvo.war.
  • Re-start your Live Forms server.
  • Download  one of Live Forms  global themes (for example, nouveau blue or nouveau) and save the zip file to your desktop.
  • Unzip the zip file to a temporary location.
  • Add css code to the form.css file - see the example below.
  • Zip the files back as they were.
  • Upload the zip file to Live Forms as an Application or Designer Theme by clicking the New Image Removed icon on the appropriate screen.
  • Create a new form and choose the custom theme from the new form wizard (or if you are editing an existing form, replace the current theme with your newly customized theme).
  • Check Save PDF on the Form Property panel.
  • Test the form with international translations. 
  • Print View and form submission PDFs should be generated with international characters. 
  • Here is an example of the css code using a free bitmap font (unifont). It is possible more code will need to be added to cover additional control types: 
Code Block
.s-print form { 	
       font-family: unifont; 
}  
.s-print .f-form label { 	
       font-family: unifont; 	background-color: yellow; 
} 
.s-print .f-input .input, .s-print .f-select1 .select, .s-print .f-select1 .textarea, .s-print .f-select .textarea, .s-print .f-textarea .textarea { 	font-family: unifont; 
} 
  • Zip the files back as they were.
  • Upload the zip file to Live Forms as an Application or Designer Theme by clicking the New Image Added icon on the appropriate screen.
  • Create a new form and choose the custom theme from the new form wizard (or if you are editing an existing form, replace the current theme with your newly customized theme).
  • Check Save PDF on the Form Property panel.
  • Test the form with international translations. 
  • Print View and form submission PDFs should be generated with international characters. 

 

 The image below shows a portion of a pdf generated from a form with a few controls tested with Chinese translation.

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