Avoiding hard coding of Font and Signature Path in RTF

Hi All,
I have to create a check printing program and this requires MICR font and signatures. right now i have provided the URL for signature in RTF and path where my font is kept.
The issue is everytime i am migrating my code from one instance to other i have to change both. Is there any way so that i can avoid the hardcoding of both.
Thanks
Aryan

Hi Helios,
Thanks for the help buddy. I have gone through document earlier and here also the path hardcoding has been told. I want to avoid that.
Regarding the Image i am using a standard Report for getting the check details and i don;t want to modify that part for getting the url value from there. I hope there is some other way to resolve this the way oracle uses for it standard reports.
Thanks
Aryan

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