In such cases, it was necessary to alias the Windows fonts to other fonts with a similar style available on UNIX (for example, Helvetica). In prior releases, a report may have been created with fonts that are readily available on Windows, but not on UNIX (for example, Arial font). The font enhancements introduced in Oracle Reports 11 g Release 1 (11.1.1) make font aliasing unnecessary in almost all cases. For font aliasing considerations when designing multilingual applications, see Section 23.2.1.3.2, 'Font Aliasing Considerations'. You can alias multibyte fonts as well as character sets. This font-to-font substitution is usually used when porting applications (in this case, your PDF file) across platforms.
Font aliasing enables you to substitute one font for another that is, font-to-font substitution.
