How to implement custom fonts in TCPDF

Question

In TCPDF, there are only a few fonts to choose from, to create pdf files. I want to set Tahoma as my pdf font. How can I include Tahoma in TCPDF??

Answer 1

The latest TCPDF version automatically convert fonts into TCPDF format using the addTTFfont() method. For example:

// convert TTF font to TCPDF format and store it on the fonts folder
$fontname = TCPDF_FONTS::addTTFfont('/path-to-font/FreeSerifItalic.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 96);

// use the font
$pdf->SetFont($fontname, '', 14, '', false);

For further information and examples, please check the TCPDF Fonts documentation page.

NOTE: Once the font has been converted, TCPDF no longer requires the TTF file or the above call to addTTFfont()!

Answer 2

I have discovered a very good tool online. The only thing you need to do is to upload your .ttf file and then download the files and copy then into the /fonts folder.

http://www.xml-convert.com/en/convert-tff-font-to-afm-pfa-fpdf-tcpdf

Answer 3

The addTTFfont method is not available on TCPDF main class so following worked for me.

// convert TTF font to TCPDF format and store it on the fonts folder
$fontname = TCPDF_FONTS::addTTFfont('pathto/arial.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 96);

// use the font
$pdf->SetFont($fontname, '', 14, '', false);

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

I don't know anything about tcpdf or php, but I found this:

http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_033.phps

Apparently you just use the font's name, not the file name.

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Strike one!

Okay, how about this page. To prep a font to be used by TCPDF, you have to run the file through a command line utility and a PHP script.

$ ttf2ufm -a -F myfont.ttf

And then:
$ php -q makefont.php myfont.ttf myfont.ufm
or
MakeFont(string $fontfile, string $fmfile [, boolean $embedded [, $enc="cp1252" [, $patch=array()]]])

ttf2ufm is distributed with TCPDF in the TCPDF/fonts directory.

Answer 5

the below lines will generate 3 files in ur fonts folder 1.rotisserifi56.php 2.rotisserifi56.ctg 3.rotisserifi56.rar

    use this to generate the required php and other files
$fontname = $this->pdf->addTTFfont('D:/wamp/www/projectname/sites/all/modules/civicrm/packages/tcpdf/fonts/Rotis Serif Italic 56.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);

    // use the font
    $this->pdf->SetFont($fontname, '', 14, '', false);

Now,

use the fonts like this:

 $this->pdf->AddFont('rotisserifi56', '', 'rotisserifi56.php');
$this->pdf->SetFont('rotisserifi56');

--hope this helps some one :)

Answer 6

I found the addTTFfont method a little finicky (ok, probably didn't try very hard) and the online tool mentioned above works for FPDF but misses the ctg.z file that TCPDF requires.

This one - http://fonts.snm-portal.com/ - generates the 3 required files (.php, .z and .ctg.z) for TCPDF. Convert the TTF, upload the three files to your fonts folder and you're good to go.

Answer 7

First create .php ,.afm,.z from http://www.xml-convert.com/en/convert-tff-font-to-afm-pfa-fpdf-tcpdf and move all three in same directory containing .ttf file. then Use This :

$pdf->AddFont(path-to/universe.ttf','',path-to/universe.php');
$pdf->SetFont(path-to/universe.ttf','',10);

Answer 8

Latest TCPDF supports custom fonts.

Documentation about using custom fonts with TCPDF can be read here.

Answer 9

the best way i have been tried and worked 100% put your TTF font in fonts folder and then use this constant K_PATH_FONTS + FONT NAME

   $font1 = $this->pdf->addTTFfont(K_PATH_FONTS . 'arial.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 8);
   $this->pdf->SetFont($font1, '', 15, '', false);

Answer 10

There is no point in using addTTFfont() if you don't have the .ttf file.

And the whole point is: if there is NO ttf file, how can someone use addTTFfont() function?

For example, there is no cid0cs file in font/ directory (TCPDF 6.0.20), only cid0cs.php, which is NOT a font file.

Answer 11

I wasn't able to find addTTFFont() in the latest release of tcpdf. However, I was able to include a custom TTF file by myself. Within the tcpdf folder is a folder named tools which include a PHP file called tcpdf_addfont.php.

I symlinked it to my home directory (you can omit this step) and run it like this: shell ./addfont.php -b -t TrueTypeUnicode -f 32 -i myfont.ttf

That's it, it will dump something similar to this: ```

Converting fonts for TCPDF: *** Output dir set to /Users/pascalraszyk/XXX/XXX/pdf/vendor/tecnick.com/tcpdf/fonts/ +++ OK : /Users/pascalraszyk/XXX/XXX/pdf/myfont.ttf added as myfont Process successfully completed! ```

Note: There are more examples within the tools folder for various font types. I used composer to checkout tcpdf.

As long as you put your font definition files in the tcpdf/fonts folder you should be good to go!

I used HTML2PDF which uses tcpdf under the hood and it worked like a charm.

Answer 12

I had this problem despite having all the right files. I had to change the file names to all lower case

Answer 13

When was not possible convert font GothamRounded standard way, I was looking for another tool and only this one http://fonts.snm-portal.com/ worked for me.