Supported Fonts
OneSpan Sign supports a standard set of fonts that can be used when documents are created or uploaded for use in a transaction.
Using a font that is not supported by OneSpan Sign could result in unintended consequences, including document text becoming unreadable. Some unsupported fonts may display properly. However, OneSpan cannot guarantee that an unsupported font will display properly unless it's embedded in the rendered document.
OneSpan thus recommends:
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Using the fonts supported by OneSpan Sign.
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Embedding any unsupported fonts in your PDF when you create it.
The rest of this page discusses the following topics:
List of Supported Fonts
The following table lists only the fonts that OneSpan Sign supports. It does not list any other fonts (e.g., those installed with your Operating System, or fonts installed later — such as Microsoft Office’s core fonts).
One way to embed fonts is to use a PDF/A document. For more information, see Using PDF/A Documents.
| FONT NAME (displayed in the User Interface) | COMMENTS |
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| Courier | Part of PDF base14 fonts |
| Courier Bold | Part of PDF base14 fonts |
| Courier Bold Oblique |
Part of PDF base14 fonts Note: ‘oblique’ not ‘italic’ |
| Courier Oblique | Note: ‘oblique’ not ‘italic’ |
| Helvetica |
Part of PDF base14 fonts. Note: Similar to Arial. |
| Helvetica Bold | Part of PDF base14 fonts |
| Helvetica Oblique |
Part of PDF base14 fonts Note: ‘oblique’ not ‘italic’. |
| Helvetica Bold Oblique |
Part of PDF base14 fonts Note: ‘oblique’ not ‘italic’. |
| Symbol | |
| Times New Roman | Part of PDF base14 fonts |
| Times New Roman Bold | Part of PDF base14 fonts |
| Times New Roman Italic | Part of PDF base14 fonts |
| Times New Roman Bold Italic | Part of PDF base14 fonts |
| ZapfDingbats |
Using PDF/A Documents
A PDF/A document embeds the fonts that the document uses into the PDF file itself. This ensures that the document's readers don't need to install the document's fonts on their local machine.
The steps you need may differ slightly from those below, depending on your version of Microsoft Word, and on whether you are using Adobe Acrobat Pro.
To create a PDF/A document from a Word document:
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Open the Word document.
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Click Save As, and select PDF.
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Click Options.
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Select the PDF/A compliant check box.
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Click OK.
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Enter a name for your PDF, and click Save.
Embedding Fonts for Document Conversion
The OneSpan Sign Document Converter converts incoming non-PDF documents to PDF documents. During the conversion process:
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If a font exists in the system, the converter applies the corresponding font to the converted PDF.
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If a font doesn't exist in the system, the converter replaces it with the closest possible match, using the List of Font Substitutions below.
Starting with Release 22.R4 (11.49), OneSpan is migrating the Document Converter from Windows Virtual Machines to Linux containers. Because Windows and Linux have different font sets, this migration could impact the appearance of the PDFs created by OneSpan Sign. OneSpan therefore strongly recommends that during the migration period, you embed all fonts that are in *.doc and *.docx documents. For more about embedding / substituting fonts, see this article. Note: Fonts cannot be embedded in *.rtf, *.txt, or *.odt documents.
List of Font Substitutions
The following table lists the font substitutions made by the Document Converter when unsupported fonts are found in non-PDF documents.
| Original Font | Substituted Font |
|---|---|
| Arabic Transparent | KacstArt |
| Arial | Liberation Sans, FreeSans, Garuda, DejaVu Sans |
| Arial Baltic | Liberation Sans, FreeSans, Garuda, DejaVu Sans |
| Arial CE | Liberation Sans, FreeSans, Garuda, DejaVu Sans |
| Arial Cyr | Liberation Sans, FreeSans, Garuda, DejaVu Sans |
| Arial Greek | Liberation Sans, FreeSans, Garuda, DejaVu Sans |
| Arial TUR | Liberation Sans, FreeSans, Garuda, DejaVu Sans |
| Arial Unicode MS | Google Noto |
| Batang | Google Noto |
| BatangChe | Google Noto |
| Calibri | Carlito |
| Cambria | Caladea |
| Cambria Math | Google Noto |
| Charcoal | FreeSerif |
| Comic Sans MS | DejaVu Sans |
| Courier | FreeMono, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono |
| Courier New | FreeMono, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono |
| Courier New Baltic | FreeMono, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono |
| Courier New CE | FreeMono, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono |
| Courier New Cyr | FreeMono, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono |
| Courier New Greek | FreeMono, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono |
| Courier New TUR | FreeMono, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono |
| DengXian | Google Noto |
| Dotum | Google Noto |
| DotumChe | Google Noto |
| Georgia | Norasi, Liberation Serif, FreeSerif, DejaVu Serif |
| Gulim | Google Noto |
| GulimChe | Google Noto |
| Gungush | Google Noto |
| GungushChe | Google Noto |
| Helvetica | FreeSans |
| Impact | Rekha, DejaVu Sans |
| Lucida Console | FreeMono, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans Mono |
| Lucida Grande | FreeMono, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans |
| Lucida Sans Unicode | FreeMono, Liberation Mono, DejaVu Sans |
| Malgun Gothic | Google Noto |
| Microsoft JhengHei | Google Noto |
| Microsoft Sans Serif | DejaVu Sans |
| Microsoft YaHei | Google Noto |
| MingLiU | Google Noto |
| MingLiU-ExtB | Google Noto |
| MingLiU_HKSCS | Google Noto |
| MingLiU_HKSCS-ExtB | Google Noto |
| MS Gothic | Google Noto |
| MS Mincho | Google Noto |
| MS PGothic | Google Noto |
| MS UI Gothic | Google Noto |
| ＭＳ 明朝 | Google Noto |
| ＭＳ ゴシック | Google Noto |
| New York | DejaVu Serif |
| NSimSun | Google Noto |
| Palatino Linotype | FreeSerif |
| PMingLiU | Google Noto |
| PMingLiU-ExtB | Google Noto |
| SimSun | Google Noto |
| SimSun-ExtB | Google Noto |
| Symbol | Google Noto |
| Tahoma | DejaVu Sans, Kalimati |
| Tahoma Armenian | DejaVu Sans |
| Times New Roman | FreeSerif, Liberation Serif, DejaVu Serif |
| Trebuchet MS | Liberation Sans, FreeSans, Garuda, DejaVu Sans |
| Times | FreeSerif, Liberation Serif, DejaVu Serif |
| Times New Roman Baltic | FreeSerif, Liberation Serif, DejaVu Serif |
| Times New Roman CE | FreeSerif, Liberation Serif, DejaVu Serif |
| Times New Roman Cyr | FreeSerif, Liberation Serif, DejaVu Serif |
| Times New Roman Greek | FreeSerif, Liberation Serif, DejaVu Serif |
| Times New Roman TUR | FreeSerif, Liberation Serif, DejaVu Serif |
| Verdana | DejaVu Sans Mono |