Please make the font on reports easier to read
I have had numerous requests from our users to change the font on budgetary data mining reports so that it is easier to read. The size doesn't seem to be the issue it just needs to be bolder.
Leslie Bonner
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Thank you for submitting and voting on this idea. We’ve researching implementing this enhancement and have determined we will not pursue it at this time.
There are several limitations to updating the font so that it is bolder. The biggest impact is that by making the font bolder it will shift the font and take up more room. Every report in the system would need to be reviewed and most likely updated as data would get pushed off the report rendering them unusable.
Thank you,
Ashley Prinsen
Product Owner
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Jeri Gamble
commented
For our Board Meetings I have to regularly change a couple of reports so that they are bolded. To do this, I do the following:
1. Close the PDF report
2. Open a blank Word document
3. Click File, Open. Find and select the PDF file. A message will appear notifying that your PDF file will be converted to Word.
4. The file will appear. You might be required to select 'Enable Editing'
5. Press Ctrl/A to select all data. Click Bold on the Font menu (or press Ctrl/B).
6. The previous step will not bold the header. Double click on the header. Press Ctrl/A, then Ctrl/B. Scroll through the document and repeat Ctrl/A and Ctrl/B if you find a header that isn't bold. Exit out of the header.
7. Now that everything is bolded, save the Word file. Then save it back to a PDF. -
Sheila Wechter
commented
The font needs to be bolder! Please!
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John Jameson
commented
I received a lot of the same feedback from my staff when we first started using Skyward. The thing that I found was that users were using Firefox which by default uses a Mozilla built-in PDF viewer instead of an actual PDF program. The Firefox PDF viewer does a poor job displaying text. I had some staff stop using Firefox and some just switch Firefox to use an Adobe to view PDFs instead and this stopped the negative feedback. (This is useful. I post it on my Skyward login screen: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-built-pdf-viewer-and-use-another-viewer)