When generating a PDF it totally ignores my font-family attribute applied to my CSS. Instead of say Verdana, it uses Times New Roman. So my CSS look like:
.sub-header {
font-size: 1.4rem;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-family: NeutraText-Book !important;
padding-bottom: 1.5rem;
}
The PDF is generated like this:
$pdf = PDF::loadHTML($view);
return $pdf->stream();
How can I set a font I want?
Answer
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.