TCPDF Fonts TCPDF supports TrueTypeUnicode (UTF-8 Unicode), OpenTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenT ype, Type1, CID-0 and Core

(standard) fonts. There are two ways to use a new font: embedding it in the PDF or not. When a fon t is not embedded, it is searched in the system. The advantage is that the PDF f ile is lighter; on the other hand, if it is not available, a substitution font i s used. So it is preferable to ensure that the needed font is installed on the c lient systems. If the file is to be viewed by a large audience, it is recommende d to embed. The fonts that could be not embedded are only the standard core fonts and CID-0 fonts. The PDF Core (standard) fonts are: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * courier : Courier courierb : Courier Bold courierbi : Courier Bold Italic courieri : Courier Italic helvetica : Helvetica helveticab : Helvetica Bold helveticabi : Helvetica Bold Italic helveticai : Helvetica Italic symbol : Symbol times : Times New Roman timesb : Times New Roman Bold timesbi : Times New Roman Bold Italic timesi : Times New Roman Italic zapfdingbats : Zapf Dingbats

Setting up a font for usage with TCPDF requires the following steps: 1. Convert all font filenames to lowercase and rename using the following sch ema: * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase].ttf for regular font * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]b.ttf for bold variation * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]i.ttf for oblique variation * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]bi.ttf for bold oblique variation 2. Generate the font's metrics file. * For Type1 font files this first step is not necessary because the AF M 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. I f you own a Type1 font in ASCII format (.pfa), you can convert it to binary form at with Type 1 utilities. * For TrueTypeUnicode or TrueType font files, use the the provided ttf 2ufm utility (fonts/utils/ttf2ufm): $ ttf2ufm -a -F myfont.ttf * For OpenTypeUnicode or OpenType font files, use the the provided ttf 2ufm utility (fonts/utils/ttf2ufm): $ ttf2ufm -a -F myfont.otf 3. Run makefont.php script. * For TrueTypeUnicode:

$ php -q makefont.php myfont.ttf myfont.ufm * For OpenTypeUnicode: $ php -q makefont.php myfont.otf myfont.ufm * For TrueType: $ php -q makefont.php myfont.ttf myfont.afm * For OpenType: $ php -q makefont.php myfont.otf myfont.afm * For Type1: $ php -q makefont.php myfont.pfb myfont.afm You may also specify additional parameters: MakeFont(string $fontfile, string $fmfile [, boolean $embedded [, $enc="cp 1252" [, $patch=array()]]]) * $fontfile : Path to the .ttf or .pfb file. * $fmfile : Path to the .afm file for Type1 and TrueType or .ufm for T rueTypeUnicode. * $embedded : Set to false to not embed the font, true otherwise (defa ult). * $enc : Name of the encoding table to use. Default value: cp1252. Omi t this parameter for TrueType Unicode, OpenType Unicode and symbolic fonts like Symbol or ZapfDingBats. The encoding defines the association between a code (fro m 0 to 255) and a character. The first 128 are fixed and correspond to ASCII. Th e encodings are stored in .map files. Those available are: o cp1250 (Central Europe) o cp1251 (Cyrillic) o cp1252 (Western Europe) o cp1253 (Greek) o cp1254 (Turkish) o cp1255 (Hebrew) o cp1257 (Baltic) o cp1258 (Vietnamese) o cp874 (Thai) o iso-8859-1 (Western Europe) o iso-8859-2 (Central Europe) o iso-8859-4 (Baltic) o iso-8859-5 (Cyrillic) o iso-8859-7 (Greek) o iso-8859-9 (Turkish) o iso-8859-11 (Thai) o iso-8859-15 (Western Europe) o iso-8859-16 (Central Europe) o koi8-r (Russian) o koi8-u (Ukrainian) Of course, the font must contain the characters corresponding to the chosen encoding. The encodings which begin with cp are those used by Windows; L inux systems usually use ISO. * $patch : Optional modification of the encoding. Empty by default. Th is 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 symb ol. To add it at position 164, pass array(164=>'Euro').

4. Edit and copy resulting files by case: * For embedded fonts: copy the resulting .php, .z and .ctg.z (if avail able) files to the TCPDF fonts directory. * For not-embedding the font, edit the .php file and comment the $file entry. * For CID-0 fonts (not embeddeed) you have to edit the .php file: o change the font type to: $type='cidfont0'; o set the default font width by adding the line: $dw=1000; o remove the $enc, $file and $ctg variables definitions 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 wo rking example): + // Chinese Simplified $enc='UniCNS-UTF16-H'; $cidinfo=array('Registry'=>'Adobe', 'Ordering'=>'CNS1',' Supplement'=>0); include(dirname(__FILE__).'/uni2cid_ac16.php'); + // Chinese Traditional $enc='UniGB-UTF16-H'; $cidinfo=array('Registry'=>'Adobe', 'Ordering'=>'GB1','S upplement'=>2); include(dirname(__FILE__).'/uni2cid_ag15.php'); + // Korean $enc='UniKS-UTF16-H'; $cidinfo=array('Registry'=>'Adobe', 'Ordering'=>'Korea1' ,'Supplement'=>0); include(dirname(__FILE__).'/uni2cid_ak12.php'); + // Japanese $enc='UniJIS-UTF16-H'; $cidinfo=array('Registry'=>'Adobe', 'Ordering'=>'Japan1' ,'Supplement'=>5); include(dirname(__FILE__).'/uni2cid_aj16.php'); o copy the .php file to the TCPDF fonts directory. 5. Rename php font files variations using the following schema: * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase].php for regular font * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]b.php for bold variation * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]i.php for oblique variation * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]bi.php for bold oblique variation