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Wingdings font available for selection, but cannot actually use in PDF reports

Newt
8 - Asteroid

In setting a Column rule, I have set the rule to Always Use a specific font, Wingdings, for data in that column.  (Regular fonts elsewhere).  But when I import an Excel sheet that has a Wingdings up arrow in it, I get an O with a slash when writing to a temporary or permanent PDF file.  But it correctly outputs the up arrow when writing to a Word file. 

 

Is there any fix so that outputting to PDFs will recognize the Wingding font?  

 

Also, is there any way to embed a character code in Alteryx output using the Formula or other tools?

 

Thanks.

 

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csmith11
11 - Bolide

Does outputting to non temporary pdf show any difference?

csmith11
11 - Bolide

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Issue-with-PNG-PDF-output-for-special-...

 

Unfortunately, Alteryx doesn't appear to render WingDings very well to PDFs.

 

The rending of WingDings to PDF is a common issue across the internet with other programs as well.

 

My thoughts would be to write to Word first then run a script that'll convert your word Document into a PDF.

 

https://superuser.com/questions/1523869/batch-convert-docx-files-to-pdf

CharliePII
5 - Atom

Does not seem to work for Excel Either ?

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