Formatting Issue using Arial Unicode MS

[Kevin]

I have developed several reports that use the Arial Unicode MS font because of the possibility that the report contains Japanese characters.  The Style for the titles has the Bold property set to true and it displays fine when it is viewed in the Telerik Report Viewer.  For some reason when the report is exported to a PDF none of the text displays in bold, or at least it is not noticeable.  If the same report is exported to other formats it displays as I would expect it to.  What I don't understand is why this is a  problem with the PDF file type.

[Elian]

Hello Kevin,

Arial Unicode MS does not support Bold style natively. When PDF is exported, by default, its font embedding is set to "Subset" which embeds the glyphs you have used. Because there isn't an actual physical file Arial Unicode MS Bold the reporting engine takes the regular version and embeds it instead. This is why you see the regular instead of the Bold version. If you export the PDF programmatically and set the Embedding ="None", then the font will be read from the installed fonts and the bold will be handled automatically again by the PDF viewer (meaning that you will actually see the font as Bold). All others format recreate the bold and this is why you see the font correctly. 

Greetings,
Elian
the Telerik team