Oracle Reports Font Subsetting - oracle

I have an Oracle Reports 10g rdf which uses an non-standard font which gets garbled when the client machine doesn't have the font installed. My clients machines are Windows-based in major and my server is Linux-based
I searched for information on the internet and stumbled on Font Subsetting configuration, which worked fine on my local machine, generating PDF files with the font incorporated. This PDF opened in all machines without problem.
I've done this steps on my server:
I copied the font TTF file (inthrp48dmtt.ttf) to u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.2/frm10g/reports/templates
In uifont.ali file, located at /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.2/frm10g/guicommon/tk/admin/, i added:
At [GLOBAL] section
"IntHrP48DmTt" = inthrp48dmtt
At [PDF:Subset] section
inthrp48dmtt = "inthrp48dmtt.ttf"
I installed the font inthrp48dmtt.ttf to the folder /usr/share/fonts/IntHrP48DmTt and executed the command fc-cache /usr/share/fonts/IntHrP48DmTt/
Restarted the Reports Server
After all this steps, the font still garbled up. Anyone has any idea?

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