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Piseth Sok
Piseth Sok

Reputation: 1819

How to make DOMPDF support unicode font step by step?

I used DOMPDF library and now I have problem with content with unicode language. and I found this one dompdf help but I don't understand about this. can anyone tell the detail of this? thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 23654

Answers (5)

Regolith
Regolith

Reputation: 2971

Download load_font.php and place in ur project root

View load_font.php

add $fontDir = "storage/fonts";

This will show where the fonts are added.

download your font at eg: PREETI and place at your project root

run in command line php load_font.php PREETI PREETI.ttf

then you font will be installed to storage/fonts directory

now go to the pdf file and add

<style>
    body {
        font-family: PREETI;
        color: #1c2221;
    }
</style>

Upvotes: 1

Ryan McCue
Ryan McCue

Reputation: 1658

  1. Enable the mbstring extension
  2. Find a font in .ttf format with characters that support your given language
  3. Generate a .afm file for DOMPDF:
    1. Using the command line, cd into the directory which contains load_font.php, then run php load_font.php FontName /path/to/font.ttf
    2. Using the online tool, fill out the form and download the zip it gives you. Copy the files from this zip into dompdf/lib/fonts. If you've done this before, add relevant lines to dompdf_font_family_cache, otherwise simply rename the dompdf_font_family_cache.sample to dompdf_font_family_cache

  4. Enable DOMPDF's Unicode mode, by making sure the line

    define("DOMPDF_UNICODE_ENABLED", true);

    is set in dompdf_config.inc.php. If it reads false instead of true, change that.

Upvotes: 11

Dimitris Baltas
Dimitris Baltas

Reputation: 3265

As of version 0.7, dompdf supports and has unicode enabled by default. (therefore there is no need for configuration).

Not all dompdf fonts support unicode though. I used font-family: DejaVu Sans with success.

To install a custom font or learn more about it you can read the official unicode how to.

Upvotes: 1

usama sulaiman
usama sulaiman

Reputation: 2021

try to manipulate your code using this recommended DOMPDF method it's a A guide to enabling Unicode support in DOMPDF To ensure maximum compatibility you should follow all of the following steps. Click through for additional details. Ensure the MBString PHP extension is enabled Install dompdf 0.6.0 or greater Configure dompdf for Unicode support Load a font supporting your characters into dompdf Create a compatible HTML document see the link for more information

Upvotes: -1

Fabien M&#233;nager
Fabien M&#233;nager

Reputation: 140205

There is a wiki page for this.

The next beta (0.6 beta 3), to be released soon, has a font installer that doesn't require the command line (neither any compilation). You already can use it by checking out the SVN trunk. This beta also supports @font-face.

Upvotes: 3

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