I cannot convert this font (TrueType Unicode) for use in tcpdf. I'm using UTF-8 encoding
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14964998/chamberssansoffc.ttf
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14964998/chamberssansoffcb.ttf
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14964998/chamberssansoffcbi.ttf
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14964998/chamberssansoffci.ttf
This font works fine on me website - renders Chinese, Polish, German, Romanian characters.
I would be grateful for help.
To see all UTF-8 encoding in tcpdf I will prefer use freeserif font.You can see a good example in tcpdf, example number 8.
Try this
$pdf->SetFont('freeserif', '', 12);
Now if you don't want to use freeserif, you can convert this font by tcpdf example by use this line.open tcpdf example folder, than open example __001, after 31 number line anywhere just past this code.Here make sure your path directory.Than run this code.After run go to font folder.You will get all your desire file.
$fontname = $pdf->addTTFfont('/wamp/www/tcpdf/arial/arialuni.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);
As far as i know you can`t use ttf directly but you can search for font converter tcpdf or use this tool: http://fonts.snm-portal.com/. Helped me.
It looks like you are trying to load the fonts remotely. That wont work with TCPDF because it needs to write the the font directory in order to create the pseudo-files for the PDF. Try adding them locally:
$fontname = $pdf->addTTFfont('/path-to-font/chamberssansoffc.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);
Also, you have to make sure that the font folder is writable on the server to allow TCPDF to create the pseudo-files.
Hope this helps!
I am using tcpdf for writing PDF. I am facing weird issue with it. I am not able to write Unicode Hindi Character. 'तुम्हारे' like for this character its writing as ?????. Though I have taken UTF-8 as input.
$tcpdf = new XTCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
$tcpdf->addTTFfont(K_PATH_FONTS . 'ARIALUNI.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);
Second line has created .z,.ctg,.php files. BUt still my text is outputted as ???
How can I write it for Hindi Unicode Characters.
I started using this website instead of the ->addTTFfont feature: http://www.xml-convert.com/en/convert-tff-font-to-afm-pfa-fpdf-tcpdf
I found this to be a much more reliable way of adding fonts to TCPDF. It will create the necessary files to drop in the folder. These are the files that would be created through the addTTFfont method.
Instructions:
Visit the website found above
Convert the .ttf file through this tool
Save the files it gives you right to the tcpdf/fonts folder.
I also search for hindi font in TCPDF and found solution at last. we have to a file from : https://code.google.com/p/pyfpdf/downloads/detail?name=fpdf_unicode_font_pack.zip&can=2&q=
we don't have to include whole files. just include lohit_hi.ttf file in your fonts fonlder
and then
$pdf->addTTFfont(K_PATH_FONTS . 'lohit_ta.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);
$pdf->SetFont('lohit_hi', '', 10 ,'true');
Can someone put together a clear and concise example of how you can create a PDF using TCPDF that will support text strings from any language?
It appears there is not a single font that will support all languages. I'm guessing the font would be too large?
I assume the correct way would be to detect the language of the string and dynamically set the font type to a compatible font. If this is the case then it gets very complex in detecting the language for each string.
Most languages are supported if you use the "freeserif" font. However it does not support CJK fonts. I've tried many fonts (kozminproregular, cid0jp, cid0kr, cid0jp, stsongstdlight) to get support for Chinese, Japanse, and Korean, but none of them seem to support all three languages.
This worked out perfectly for me. Thank you!
To make sure, the generated PDF file will not get to big, use FontSubsetting - I have a 10 page PDF generated with only a few Lines of chinese (Names on Diplomas)
$pdf->setFontSubsetting(true); => PDF File slightly bigger 925kb vs 755kb without the chinese names
if you use
$pdf->setFontSubsetting(false); => PDF File size as about 17.5 MB ...
Managed this problem by making my own font from arial ms unicode with these steps:
In a temporal script put and execute this
1. put a copy of ARIALUNI.ttf in fonts folder under tcpdf installation (i've taken my copy from windows\fonts folder.
2. make a temporary script in examples folder of tcpdf and execute it with this line:
$fontname = $pdf->addTTFfont('../fonts/ARIALUNI.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);
3. set the new font in your pdf generator script:
$pdf->SetFont('arialuni', '', 20);
Now the pdf should be showing correctly CJK characters.
Hope this helps so many people.
I just tried Etiennez0r's solution, and it didn't work for me. Needed to make a minor modification as below:
$fontname = TCPDF_FONTS::addTTFfont('../fonts/ARIALUNI.TTF', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 96);
I setting:
$fontname = TCPDF_FONTS::addTTFfont(FCPATH . 'TCPDF/fonts/ARIALUNI.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);
.......
// set font
$pdf->SetFont('dejavusans', '', 14);
$pdf->SetFont('cid0cs', '', 14);
Export Japanese is working well
Can somebody tell me what i am doing wrong? I need Arial font in my pdf generated by TCPDF.
First I've tried to use that :
1) I got Arial from windows fonts caltalog and put it in TCPDF directory.
2) Next I wrote in script :
$fontname = $pdf->addTTFfont('../lib/tcpdf/arial.ttf', '', '', 32);
After that in tcpdf/fonts appears 3 files (arial.ctg.z , arial.php and arial.z). I thought that everything was ok but if in TCPDF i use this font by:
$pdf->SetFont('arial', '', 16);
Font in document is indeed arial but without polish specific sings (ąęłżńź)
I've tried also prepare font by yourself :
I downloaded ttf2afm and makefontuni.php script then in command line I wrote this:
ttf2ufm -a arial.ttf
php -q makefontuni.php arial.ttf arial.ufm
that command gave me also 3 files (arial.ctg.z , arial.php and arial.z) but final situation is the same like before.
I've admit that all data writing to pdf is in UTF-8 and TCPDF construct is like this :
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'utf-8', false);
I don't know what am i doing wrong. :(
If you want to use a custom font use this tool
https://www.xml-convert.com/en/convert-tff-font-to-afm-pfa-fpdf-tcpdf
when you get the generated files just move them to the /fonts directory and with the same name they have, set the font-name attribute.
No need to add any font, use the Dejavu Sans Font which has all the UTF-8 characters built-in and the TCPDF has it already..
$pdf->SetFont('dejavusans', '', 14, '', true);
http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_001.phps
$fontname = TCPDF_FONTS::addTTFfont(FCPATH.'/assets/css/fonts/arial-unicode-ms.ttf');
This is what I use to include custom font to TCPDF. You need only .ttf file of the font. Add it in folder on your choice on the server and run this code once. ( I run it first time on export ) Then you can comment this row and the font would be there.
In order to add it to the exporter you should add it as font with:
$pdf->addFont('your-font-name', '', 10, '', false);
And if you want it to be default:
$pdf->setFont('your-font-name', '', 10, '', false);
If you don't know what is the actual name of the font to use in PDF:
echo $fontname;
This would give you the specific name of the font to use in the exported file.
After you run that command once the TCPDF creates all the file needed in its font folder and it is ready to use from now on.
If you want to re-add the same font (modified) you need to delete your font files in tcpdf/fonts/your-font-name. and run this command again to re-add them.
Hm, are you sure your Arial has all UTF-8 characters?
I followed instructions here http://www.tcpdf.org/fonts.php
and it worked. What I had problems was that I was only able to add Regular Font - as soon as I added Bold or Italic and then change from one another, all characters turned to dots.
So at the moment I'm only using my Regular font and for Bold I use 'dejavusans' (thanks to Miro).
My code:
$fontname = $pdf->addTTFfont('/lib/tcpdf/fonts/myfont-Regular.ttf','TrueTypeUnicode','');
$pdf->SetFont($fontname, '', 8, '', true);
I think it will help you to fix the character issue.
$pdf->SetFont('freeserif', '', 12);
Above font-family which supports the UTF-8 characters.
I had the same error i was able to fixed it putting the next, after de line:
$pdf = new MYPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT,
true, 'UTF-8', false);
$fontname = $pdf->addTTFfont('tcpdf/fonts/arial.ttf', '', '', 32);
$pdf->SetFont('arial', '', 16);`
Is better if you convert the font to ctg.z/z/php files.
You can convert ttf fonts with http://fonts.palettize.me and then put uncompressed result in fonts folder into tcpdf class.
Then you can add it with $pdf->SetFont('jameelnoorinastaleeq', 'BI', 20);
Im using latest TCPDF version(5.9). But have some strange problems with encoding. I need Lithuanian language symbols like: ąčęėįšųūž. But get only few of it. Other remain like ?????
So what should I do ? I use default times font(it comes with TCPDF download).
Any help would be appreciated.
TCPDF is quite tricky with utf8. Best way to achieve what you want is to embed the font in generated PDF file itself. You can use freeserif font from the TCPDF package, it contains all the utf8 symbols, shows absolutely any character of any language, but adds ~700kb to the output file. That's probably the easiest way to get symbols you need if file size doesn't matter.
You could also make your own font to embed, containing the characters you need. That's probably the best solution, keeping it universal and small in size, but is more complex.
Alternatively, you can relay on core fonts, which are taken from the system, and if not found, replaced by a substitute. This makes output file extremely light, but adds the necessity of font subsetting to obtain exotic chars. Personally I haven't had a success with this, so I still think embedding font is the best solution, which also happens to be more universal..
there is a font included in the CPDF core fonts - dejavusans, it shows all the lithuanian characters. Just add the following:
$pdf->setHeaderFont(Array('dejavusans', '', 10, '', false));
$pdf->setFooterFont(Array('dejavusans', '', 8, '', false));
$pdf->SetFont('dejavusans', '', 10, '', false);
Set the $unicode parameter on the TCPDF constructor to false and the $encoding parameter to 'ISO-8859-1' or some other character map.
This will help you:
Default for UTF-8 unicode:
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
Example of constructor for European charset:
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, false, 'ISO-8859-1', false);
Set font to freeserif it will work.
I tested.
$pdf->SetFont('freeserif', '', 14, '', true);
Just discovered this same situation when trying to render Romanian text using the default Helvetica font. In doing some investigation I found that the tcpdf library treats it's default fonts (referred to as "core" fonts) as Latin1 characters so even if you tell it to use UTF-8 encoding and set the unicode flag, it will literally translate your text to Latin1 equivalents prior to rendering. The default behavior of the library is, if it finds a Latin1 equivalent, to translate each character that it can find an equivalent for otherwise it translates the character as '?'.
This can be found inside the TCPDF class in the following method chain:
Write() -> Cell() -> getCellCode() -> _escapetext().
Inside of _escapetext() you can see it is checking for $this->isunicode then checking the selected font to see if it's type is core|TrueType|Type1. If it is, it will take the string an "latinize" it for you by way of the UTF8ToLatin1() method. This is where the '?' translations are taking place.
My recommendation would be to use a custom unicode font (like Deja Vu Sans) that is similar to the default font you are after. That worked for me in my current situation.
To use TCPDF with special characters like ฿, 포 or others
you need to use a unicode font:
download the font here:
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/multimedia/MPlayer/contrib/fonts/arialuni.ttf.bz2
create a test pdf file and load this font into TCPDF
example:
$fontname = $pdf->addTTFfont('/var/www/app/images/fonts/arialuni.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);
this will create the fonts like:
application/libraries/tcpdf/fonts/arialuni.ctg.z
application/libraries/tcpdf/fonts/arialuni.php
application/libraries/tcpdf/fonts/arialuni.z
now you can set the new font with :
$pdf->SetFont('arialuni', '', 10.5);
and now you can use special unicode characters like ฿ and more....
Source :
http://myridia.com/dev_posts/view/852
You u have problem to read character like Karnātaka from database and display like this karn?taka I mean "?" which we don't want then do following things :
Define charset for the connection (mysql_set_charset()):
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
if (!$con)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db("database_name", $con) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_set_charset('utf8',$con);
Use $pdf->SetFont('DejaVuSerif', '', 10); instead of $pdf->SetFont('helvetica', 'B', 12);
For TCPDF Library of the PHP read character like Rājasthān instead of R?jasth?n from database
IIRC, you can define an encoding when you create a new font, as described here. Otherwise, you have to use the encoding that was defined when the font was created. It sounds like the fonts that ship with TCPDF all use WinAnsiEncoding... a.k.a. code page 1252.
Clunky, but effective.
With default TCPDF package tested dejavusans and freeserif and both fonts works with lithuanian characters. I also typed few russian characters and they worked too. I used this code to test it:
$this->pdf = new \TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
$this->pdf->AddPage();
$this->pdf->SetFont('dejavusans', 'B', 20); // UTF8 fonts with lithuanian support: freeserif, dejavusans
$this->pdf->Write(0, 'ąžūčšęėųįĄŽŪČŠĘĖŲĮ Превед Кросавчег!', '', 0, 'C', true, 0, false, false, 0);
With dejavusans font it worked fine for both Russian and Latvian letters.
With me it was a font problem. I used the font timesand my local multibyte chras wouldn't show up properly. When I changed it to freeserif they were working normally :)
For this use the following code of the parameter TCPDF constructor
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, false, 'ISO-8859-1', false);
It will help you.
$fontname = $pdf->addTTFfont('C:\xampp\htdocs\copyshop\fonts\07-TH-Sarabun-PSK\THSarabun.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);
$pdf->SetFont($fontname, '', 16,'',FALSE); //Working
I had the same issue with Romanian characters and the problem wasn't the encoding, LC_CTYPE or other setting from TCPDF, but the font I used.
I mention that I used TWIG templating with Courier font.
You can try to change your font to freeserif
change the font to show normally ₹ and Lithuanian symbols
$pdf->SetFont('cid0cs', '', 12);
To faced this issue and I had to use dejavusans font which is a UTF-8 Unicode font. This help fix the encoding issue when render UTF-8 words like ąčęėįšųūž.
However, I was using helvetica font which is standard ASCII font, and changing document's font to dejavusans make it ugly.
To fix this I set two fonts to be loaded in the document and specified a part of the document to use dejavusans font
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
/*
......
set margins and other options
......
*/
// Set font
// dejavusans is a UTF-8 Unicode font,
// if you only need to print standard ASCII chars,
// you can use core fonts like helvetica or times to reduce file size.
$pdf->SetFont('dejavusans', '', 12, '', true);
$pdf->SetFont('helvetica', '', 12, '', true);
$html = '<div style="font-family: helvetica;">' . $clientName . '</div><div style="font-family: dejavusans;">' . $clientAddress . '</div>';
// Print text using writeHTMLCell()
$pdf->writeHTMLCell($w=0, $h=0, $x='', $y='', $html, $border=0, $ln=1, $fill=0, $reseth=true, $align='', $autopadding=true);
$pdf->Output('invoice.pdf', 'I');