Font limitations

For OMI ViewApps opened in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge on Windows, local operating system fonts are supported in most cases. However, this font support has these limitations:

• The user must accept the font use permission message from the browser. If the user does not, only one font is provided for each CJK language and Roboto is used for all other languages.

• The actual font must exist for any configured style used, such as bold or italic. For example, if Arial Italic is configured, Arial must exist on the workstation, with a defined Italic style. The OMI web client does not perform software calculations to change the regular font to italic. The characters will be shown in the regular font.

• The configured font must support the language being used. There is no fallback. For example, if you configure Chinese characters to use the Arial font, the OMI web client will not show the correct Chinese characters.

With any other browser or operating system, only one font is provided for each CJK language and Roboto is used for all other languages.

Custom fonts are supported. It is the customer's responsibility to acquire the necessary licenses for any custom font used.

Note: These font limitations apply to all fonts used in a ViewApp, including those in font style animations and those applied to any element of a graphic either directly or through an element style.

Fonts and Language Settings

If you are concerned about the possibility of missing characters or other issues because the font being used in a ViewApp may not support a user's language, you can set the ViewApp to always use the font defined for the current language in the Galaxy configuration. If you set this option, all fonts defined for any part of any ViewApp are ignored and the OMI web client uses only the font defined for the current language on the Languages pane.

For more information, see Set additional properties for a ViewApp.