SQL Server 2008 Cumulative Update 1 was released a few weeks ago, and contains a very nice (but not promoted) improvement around PDF rendering.

For those who regularly render reports which require specific fonts and character sets (for example, trying to render a “simple Chinese” language report to PDF), you need to have the font in question installed on client where you read the exported PDF or you see garbage. Our PDF rendering extension didn’t include “font embedding” in 2000/2005/2008 RTM, which something that the Acrobat format does support.

Well, in CU1, we added font embedding to the PDF extension – multilingual reports just got a little bit easier!