User`s guide

8 Create Custom Stylesheets
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PDF Fonts for Non-English Platforms
In this section...
“PDF Font Support for Languages” on page 8-40
“Identifying When to Specify a Font” on page 8-40
“Stylesheets Override PDF Font Mapping” on page 8-41
“Non-English PDF Font Mapping Tasks” on page 8-41
“lang_font_map.xml File” on page 8-41
“Locate Non-English Fonts” on page 8-43
“Add or Modify Language Font Mappings” on page 8-44
“Specify the Location of Font Files” on page 8-45
PDF Font Support for Languages
The MATLAB Report Generator supports a wide range of English language fonts for PDF
reports.
The MATLAB Report Generator also provides basic PDF font support for some non-
English languages, including:
• Japanese
• Korean
• Russian (Cyrillic)
You can use the language font map to:
• Add or modify specifications for PDF font usage for supported non-English languages.
• Create PDF font support for a non-supported language.
• Change the default English fonts, if you do not specify a stylesheet.
The language font map specifications indicate what font to use on a specific platform (for
example, Windows) for basic report elements such as body text.
Identifying When to Specify a Font
If a required non-English font is missing for a report, the generated text includes pound
sign characters (#). For example: