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4 years ago
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Power BI Service, Paginated Report Builder - why some unicode glyphs not displaying

14-12-2022  caveat, RB: both Print Layout and Default View have issues, Service: Print Layout has issues but Default View works fine displaying all my selected Geographic shapes unicode glyphs.  See ...
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    d_gosbell
    3 years ago

    The difference between the default view and the print preview from app.powerbi.com is almost certainly a difference in the available fonts. When you view the default web page Power BI will send html to the client browser and that will have access to local fonts on your PC. When you do a print preview the service will generate a PDF on the server side using the fonts available on the Power BI rendering nodes. If the exact font is not available the operating system then has rules it uses to find the closest similar font. And unfortunately not all fonts have the full unicode character set.

     
    I did some tests using a number of different fonts and found that Segoe UI Symbol seemed to have the best support for extended Unicode characters. If you are putting your indicators in their own column this might work for you.
     

     

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4 years ago

Thanks for your reply.  Your post came through at the same time as my last one.  Will have look.  Thanks

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3 years ago

The difference between the default view and the print preview from app.powerbi.com is almost certainly a difference in the available fonts. When you view the default web page Power BI will send html to the client browser and that will have access to local fonts on your PC. When you do a print preview the service will generate a PDF on the server side using the fonts available on the Power BI rendering nodes. If the exact font is not available the operating system then has rules it uses to find the closest similar font. And unfortunately not all fonts have the full unicode character set.

 
I did some tests using a number of different fonts and found that Segoe UI Symbol seemed to have the best support for extended Unicode characters. If you are putting your indicators in their own column this might work for you.