{"id":21,"date":"2006-11-29T13:28:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/2006\/11\/29\/dompdf-experiment-pt2-installing-a-font\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T16:49:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T14:49:37","slug":"dompdf-experiment-pt2-installing-a-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/2006\/11\/29\/dompdf-experiment-pt2-installing-a-font\/","title":{"rendered":"dompdf experiment pt2 – installing a font"},"content":{"rendered":"

The default fonts that come with pdf aren’t enough for me, so I want to install a new font. To do so you need to have ttf2pt1<\/a> installed on the webserver. Unfortunately that’s not the case for me. The dompdf manual says the following about having problems installing fonts:<\/p>\n

Also, if you have problems installing the font files, you can try and use the distributed dompdf_font_family_cache.dist file in lib\/fonts. Copy this file to lib\/fonts\/dompdf_font_family_cache and edit it directly to match the files present in your lib\/fonts directory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s see if this will work…<\/p>\n

EDIT: Ok, found a nice .afm font (serpentine), put it in the lib\/fonts dir of dompdf 0.5.1 and edited the dompdf_font_family_cache<\/em> file, the following has been added:<\/p>\n

\n\n\t\t
\n\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t< View plain text<\/span> ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t
php<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t
\n\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t
\n\t\t
  1. 'serpentine'<\/span> =&<\/span>gt;<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  2. array<\/span> (<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  3. 'normal'<\/span> =&<\/span>gt;<\/span> DOMPDF_FONT_DIR .<\/span> 'SerpeMed'<\/span>,<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  4. 'bold'<\/span> =&<\/span>gt;<\/span> DOMPDF_FONT_DIR .<\/span> 'SerpeBol'<\/span>,<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  5. 'italic'<\/span> =&<\/span>gt;<\/span> DOMPDF_FONT_DIR .<\/span> 'SerpeMedObl'<\/span>,<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  6. 'bold_italic'<\/span> =&<\/span>gt;<\/span> DOMPDF_FONT_DIR .<\/span> 'SerpeBolObl'<\/span>,<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  7. )<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

    When I try to make a pdf using this font with dompdf an error is thrown and no pdf is generated…<\/p>\n