Dompdf and Set Different Font-family

Dompdf and set different font-family

PDF documents internally support the following fonts: Helvetica, Times-Roman, Courier, Zapf-Dingbats, & Symbol (all using Windows ANSI encoding). dompdf will embed any referenced font in the PDF so long as it has been pre-loaded or is accessible to dompdf and referenced in a CSS @font-face rule. The loading process is necessary in order to produce the font metrics used for type setting.

dompdf supports the same fonts as the underlying R&OS PDF class: Type 1 (.pfb) and TrueType (.ttf) so long as the font metrics (.afm/.ufm) are available. The bundled, PHP-based php-font-lib provides support for loading and sub-setting fonts.

The process for loading a font varies depending on your needs and server access. There are three ways you can load a font:

Use CSS @font-face rules to load a font at run-time.
From the command line use dompdf/load_font.php.
Browse to dompdf/www/fonts.php in the included admin site.

Use CSS @font-face rules to load a font at run-time

No command line access required. So long as the font you want to load is available online you can load it easily via CSS.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Open Sans';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: normal;
  src: url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/opensans/v8/cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf) format('truetype');
}

From the command line use dompdf/load_font.php

If you have access to the command line then loading a font is as simple as:

[php] load_font.php "NeutraText-Book" /path/to/neutratext.ttf

Run the command without any parameters to see help text. Quickly, though, the parameters are: name of the font, normal font file, bold font file, italic font file, bold-italic font file

Browse to dompdf/www/fonts.php in the included admin site

Self-explanatory (sample). The only thing you need to do is make sure you've modified the admin username/password combo

Note: load_font.php and the admin site will not be included by default starting with dompdf 0.7.0

Adapted from the dompdf wiki (Unicode How-To, About Fonts and Character Encoding) and other sources.

Custom Fonts in DomPDF

This ended up being a permissions issue. Once I changed the permissions on the DomPDF library folder to make it writeable, my fonts started working as expected.

Custom Fonts for DOMPDF

go to your DOMPDF folder
copy your font's as .ttf (TrueType Font) or .otf (OpenType Font) into the DOMPDF's root

open your command line and run

php load_font.php your_fonts_name ./your-normal.ttf ./your-bold.ttf ./your-bold-italic.ttf

DOMPDF now created Adobe Font Metrics and copied it to lib/fonts/* - you can now use it with
```
font-family: your_fonts_name;
```

Dompdf and Set Different Font-family