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3590675 - PDF Export from WebI Does Not Display CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) Characters or Custom Fonts Correctly

Symptom

  • When exporting a WebI report to PDF, the text may appear as blank spaces, parentheses (), or boxes instead of the expected characters.
  • In WebI, the Chinese characters are visible, but they do not display correctly in the exported PDF. 


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Environment

  • SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 2025
  • SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.x
  • Information Design Tool (IDT)
  • Universe Design Tool (UDT)
  • Web Intelligence (Webi)

Product

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 2025 ; SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.3

Keywords

chinese, korean, japanese, characters, squares, unicode, double-byte, cyrillic, asian, russian, hebrew, arabic, thai, hindi , biSL, blank spaces in pdf export, incorrect characters in pdf, pdf export font issue, webi pdf export boxes, missing characters in pdf, cjk characters in webi export, webi report to pdf
, KBA , BI-RA-WBI , Web Intelligence , Problem

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