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The quality of the Unifont is not great and also might not suite you language, so it might be necessary to use a different font. Pleas contact us if you need to install this on the server.

Referencing characters in Wingdings and other special fonts

Some fonts need to reference glyps with their Unicode entity. XF Designer does not support this and will reference the font with a normal ascii character, which the server side generation (FOP) does not support.

To reference those chars you need to swap out the normal char with the unicode char. First you need to find the unicode code for the glyph, e.g. by looging in https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/wingdings/1/ you will see

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Take a copy of the "HTML entity" value


Go to the "Text View" (Home tab) and replace normal characters with the Unicode code. Example below shows both.

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and will result in this.

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