| 1 | TCPDF Fonts
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| 3 | TCPDF supports TrueTypeUnicode (UTF-8 Unicode), OpenTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, CID-0 and Core (standard) fonts.
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| 5 | There are two ways to use a new font: embedding it in the PDF or not. When a font is not embedded, it is searched in the system. The advantage is that the PDF file is lighter; on the other hand, if it is not available, a substitution font is used. So it is preferable to ensure that the needed font is installed on the client systems. If the file is to be viewed by a large audience, it is recommended to embed.
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| 7 | The fonts that could be not embedded are only the standard core fonts and CID-0 fonts.
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| 8 |
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| 9 | The PDF Core (standard) fonts are:
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| 10 |
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| 11 | * courier : Courier
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| 12 | * courierb : Courier Bold
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| 13 | * courierbi : Courier Bold Italic
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| 14 | * courieri : Courier Italic
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| 15 | * helvetica : Helvetica
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| 16 | * helveticab : Helvetica Bold
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| 17 | * helveticabi : Helvetica Bold Italic
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| 18 | * helveticai : Helvetica Italic
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| 19 | * symbol : Symbol
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| 20 | * times : Times New Roman
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| 21 | * timesb : Times New Roman Bold
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| 22 | * timesbi : Times New Roman Bold Italic
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| 23 | * timesi : Times New Roman Italic
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| 24 | * zapfdingbats : Zapf Dingbats
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| 25 |
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| 26 | Setting up a font for usage with TCPDF requires the following steps:
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| 27 |
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| 28 | 1. Convert all font filenames to lowercase and rename using the following schema:
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| 29 | * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase].ttf for regular font
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| 30 | * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]b.ttf for bold variation
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| 31 | * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]i.ttf for oblique variation
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| 32 | * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]bi.ttf for bold oblique variation
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| 33 |
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| 34 | 2. Generate the font's metrics file.
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| 35 | * For Type1 font files this first step is not necessary because the AFM file is usually shipped with the font. In case you have only a metric file in PFM format, use the pfm2afm utility (fonts/utils/pfm2afm) to get the AFM file. If you own a Type1 font in ASCII format (.pfa), you can convert it to binary format with Type 1 utilities.
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| 36 | * For TrueTypeUnicode or TrueType font files, use the the provided ttf2ufm utility (fonts/utils/ttf2ufm):
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| 37 |
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| 38 | $ ttf2ufm -a -F myfont.ttf
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| 39 |
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| 40 | * For OpenTypeUnicode or OpenType font files, use the the provided ttf2ufm utility (fonts/utils/ttf2ufm):
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| 41 |
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| 42 | $ ttf2ufm -a -F myfont.otf
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| 43 |
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| 44 | 3. Run makefont.php script.
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| 45 | * For TrueTypeUnicode:
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| 46 |
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| 47 | $ php -q makefont.php myfont.ttf myfont.ufm
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| 48 |
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| 49 | * For OpenTypeUnicode:
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| 50 |
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| 51 | $ php -q makefont.php myfont.otf myfont.ufm
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| 52 |
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| 53 | * For TrueType:
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| 54 |
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| 55 | $ php -q makefont.php myfont.ttf myfont.afm
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| 56 |
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| 57 | * For OpenType:
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| 58 |
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| 59 | $ php -q makefont.php myfont.otf myfont.afm
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| 60 |
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| 61 | * For Type1:
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| 62 |
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| 63 | $ php -q makefont.php myfont.pfb myfont.afm
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| 64 |
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| 65 | You may also specify additional parameters:
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| 66 |
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| 67 | MakeFont(string $fontfile, string $fmfile [, boolean $embedded [, $enc="cp1252" [, $patch=array()]]])
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| 68 |
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| 69 | * $fontfile : Path to the .ttf or .pfb file.
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| 70 | * $fmfile : Path to the .afm file for Type1 and TrueType or .ufm for TrueTypeUnicode.
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| 71 | * $embedded : Set to false to not embed the font, true otherwise (default).
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| 72 | * $enc : Name of the encoding table to use. Default value: cp1252. Omit this parameter for TrueType Unicode, OpenType Unicode and symbolic fonts like Symbol or ZapfDingBats. The encoding defines the association between a code (from 0 to 255) and a character. The first 128 are fixed and correspond to ASCII. The encodings are stored in .map files. Those available are:
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| 73 | o cp1250 (Central Europe)
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| 74 | o cp1251 (Cyrillic)
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| 75 | o cp1252 (Western Europe)
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| 76 | o cp1253 (Greek)
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| 77 | o cp1254 (Turkish)
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| 78 | o cp1255 (Hebrew)
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| 79 | o cp1257 (Baltic)
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| 80 | o cp1258 (Vietnamese)
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| 81 | o cp874 (Thai)
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| 82 | o iso-8859-1 (Western Europe)
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| 83 | o iso-8859-2 (Central Europe)
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| 84 | o iso-8859-4 (Baltic)
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| 85 | o iso-8859-5 (Cyrillic)
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| 86 | o iso-8859-7 (Greek)
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| 87 | o iso-8859-9 (Turkish)
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| 88 | o iso-8859-11 (Thai)
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| 89 | o iso-8859-15 (Western Europe)
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| 90 | o iso-8859-16 (Central Europe)
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| 91 | o koi8-r (Russian)
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| 92 | o koi8-u (Ukrainian)
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| 93 | Of course, the font must contain the characters corresponding to the chosen encoding. The encodings which begin with cp are those used by Windows; Linux systems usually use ISO.
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| 94 | * $patch : Optional modification of the encoding. Empty by default. This parameter gives the possibility to alter the encoding. Sometimes you may want to add some characters. For instance, ISO-8859-1 does not contain the euro symbol. To add it at position 164, pass array(164=>'Euro').
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| 96 | 4. Edit and copy resulting files by case:
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| 97 | * For embedded fonts: copy the resulting .php, .z and .ctg.z (if available) files to the TCPDF fonts directory.
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| 98 | * For not-embedding the font, edit the .php file and comment the $file entry.
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| 99 | * For CID-0 fonts (not embeddeed) you have to edit the .php file:
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| 100 | o change the font type to: $type='cidfont0';
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| 101 | o set the default font width by adding the line: $dw=1000;
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| 102 | o remove the $enc, $file and $ctg variables definitions
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| 103 | o add one of the following blocks of text at the end of the file (depends by the language you are using - see the arialunicid0.php file for a working example):
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| 104 | + // Chinese Simplified
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| 105 | $enc='UniCNS-UTF16-H';
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| 106 | $cidinfo=array('Registry'=>'Adobe', 'Ordering'=>'CNS1','Supplement'=>0);
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| 107 | include(dirname(__FILE__).'/uni2cid_ac16.php');
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| 108 |
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| 109 | + // Chinese Traditional
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| 110 | $enc='UniGB-UTF16-H';
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| 111 | $cidinfo=array('Registry'=>'Adobe', 'Ordering'=>'GB1','Supplement'=>2);
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| 112 | include(dirname(__FILE__).'/uni2cid_ag15.php');
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| 113 |
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| 114 | + // Korean
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| 115 | $enc='UniKS-UTF16-H';
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| 116 | $cidinfo=array('Registry'=>'Adobe', 'Ordering'=>'Korea1','Supplement'=>0);
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| 117 | include(dirname(__FILE__).'/uni2cid_ak12.php');
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| 118 |
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| 119 | + // Japanese
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| 120 | $enc='UniJIS-UTF16-H';
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| 121 | $cidinfo=array('Registry'=>'Adobe', 'Ordering'=>'Japan1','Supplement'=>5);
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| 122 | include(dirname(__FILE__).'/uni2cid_aj16.php');
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| 124 | o copy the .php file to the TCPDF fonts directory.
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| 125 | 5. Rename php font files variations using the following schema:
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| 126 | * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase].php for regular font
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| 127 | * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]b.php for bold variation
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| 128 | * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]i.php for oblique variation
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| 129 | * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]bi.php for bold oblique variation
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