Installing a font on a web server for ASP.NET application

Question

I've just deployed an ASP.NET application onto a Windows 2003 web server. The application contains Crystal Reports. Some of the reports contain characters in WingDings2 font. When the report is generated those characters show in the standard font instead.

I copied the WingDings2 font to the web server, but it did not help. I restarted IIS also and that didn't help.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Solution

I checked again this morning and it now works. I wonder if the server was rebooted over the weekend.

Comments

[Travis]

That not true in this case. Sorry, should have better clarified. The Crystal Report is generating a PDF file and making that available for download.

[Travis]

ASP.NET 3.5, IIS6, CR for .NET. I checked again this morning and it now works. I wonder if the server was rebooted over the weekend.

[Oskar Duveborn]

By experience just copying the fonts to the folder won't help unless it's done using the Fonts control panel applet... so something more than just a file copy is needed - a reboot might trigger a rescan or whatever Windows uses to figure this out?

[Travis]

That's what I did... I copied the font file into the Fonts control panel.

[voretaq7]

...and then you pressed the green button twice? -- What logic leads you to believe that sitting at the physical console is different than a remote connection in this case?

[yossico]

@voretaq7 You just killed me - good laugh in a middle of the day is always awsome!