How to add custom fonts (cyrillic) to use in PDF reports in Splunk 6.3?

[vorehovs]

Hello!

In Splunk documentation, it is written that fonts can be added to use in PDF reports. Font loading is controlled by parameter:
reportCIDFontList = gb cns jp kor

Also, If you want your PDFs to make use of another truetype, non-Latin font (such as Cyrillic or Greek), have your Splunk Enterprise admin add the Unicode font to $SPLUNK_HOME/share/splunk/fonts. Create the fonts directory if it doesn't already exist.

However, in what format and where do we get these fonts to put in the "fonts" directory?

Best regards,
Vladimir

[sni_splunk · Accepted solution]

Truetype font files are font files with “ttf” file extension, so you can try to put .ttf font files under SPLUNK_HOME/share/splunk/fonts folder to get them registered. To get these font files, you can try different sources, for example:

• https://github.com/google/fonts
• http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

[michael_vi]

After putting the new fonts, should I make any changes to

reportCIDFontList = <string>

In alert_actions.conf

[MuS]

Hi sni [Splunk],

I deleted your duplicated answer, since it was trapped in the moderation queue 😉 Just to let you know.

cheers, MuS

[sni_splunk]

Got it, thanks.