Re: custom font not working

Susanna

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Dec 17, 2012, 11:28:00 PM12/17/12

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Forgot to add, what happens in the rendered pdf is that the text that should be using the Ubuntu font is in Arial instead. I assume it just goes down the font-family list specified in the css until it finds one it can use.

BrianS

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Jan 10, 2013, 4:16:24 PM1/10/13

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In 0.6.0 beta 3 you no longer need to use the web-based font prep tool (though you can if you want). You can use load_font.php on your own server since it now uses php-font-lib internally, or you can use @font-face.

Does your installation have a dompdf_font_family_cache file as well as dompdf_font_family_cache.dist? It sounds like the font is loading, but when dompdf later goes to use it it's not finding it. I recommend reinstalling the font using load_font.php or using the @font-face method (remember, you'll have to adjust the font URLs so that they use a valid path).

On Monday, December 17, 2012 11:16:14 PM UTC-5, Susanna wrote:

I am using dompdf 0.6.0 beta 3 on a Drupal 7 site (via the Print module). I'm trying to use the Ubuntu font from here:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/ubuntu
I used the font tool at http://eclecticgeek.com/dompdf/load_font.php to generate ufm files from the ttf files. The font files I uploaded to ..../dompdf/lib/fonts/ are:
Ubuntu-B-webfont.ttf
Ubuntu-B-webfont.ufm
Ubuntu-BI-webfont.ttf
Ubuntu-BI-webfont.ufm
Ubuntu-I-webfont.ttf
Ubuntu-I-webfont.ufm
Ubuntu-R-webfont.ttf
Ubuntu-R-webfont.ufm

The entry in dompdf_font_family_cache.dist.php is:
'ubuntu' =>
array (
    'normal' => DOMPDF_FONT_DIR . 'Ubuntu-R-webfont',
    'bold' => DOMPDF_FONT_DIR . 'Ubuntu-B-webfont',
    'italic' => DOMPDF_FONT_DIR . 'Ubuntu-I-webfont',
    'bold_italic' => DOMPDF_FONT_DIR . 'Ubuntu-BI-webfont',
),

I also have the stylesheet from fontsquirrel.com's font face kit, which uses the @font-face method, but that isn't working either. My css looks like this:
.cs_subheading{
font-family:ubuntu,UbuntuRegular,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
}

When I go back to drupal admin after generating a pdf, I get errors like this:
Notice: Undefined index: /home/********/public_html/************/sites/all/libraries/dompdf/lib/fonts/Ubuntu-R-webfont in Text_Renderer->render() (line 89 of /home/********/public_html/************/sites/all/libraries/dompdf/include/text_renderer.cls.php).

What am I doing wrong??

BrianS

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Feb 25, 2013, 6:55:21 PM2/25/13

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Are your details the same? If you can provide some context to your problem we can attempt to help you resolve your problem.

On Monday, February 25, 2013 6:38:16 PM UTC-5, Jonathan wrote:

Susanna, were you ever able to fix this issue? I'm running into the very same problem.

Thanks!

Jonathan Bourland

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Feb 25, 2013, 7:10:21 PM2/25/13

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Hi Brian,

My details are more or less the same. Different font, of course. Actually generated it through load_font.php -- which was successful. It's a ufm.

I've checked my config to make sure the fonts directory is readable and writable. Check.

I have font_family_cache.php and font_family_cache.dist.php.

Would be happy to provide any other details!

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Jonathan Bourland

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Feb 25, 2013, 7:13:35 PM2/25/13

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Some other context: I'm using a Mac. The library is called from a Drupal module -- though I don't believe that's part of the issue.

Thanks-

Jonathan

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BrianS

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Feb 26, 2013, 11:22:43 AM2/26/13

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I suspect that maybe something is missing in your configuration. It seems like the font is loading from dompdf_font_family_cache.php by dompdf, but cpdf isn't loading it. Are both the .UFM and .TTF files in your font directory?

Also, try setting $_dompdf_show_warnings = true and see what shows up in dompdf/lib/fonts/log.htm.

Jonathan

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Feb 27, 2013, 11:16:01 AM2/27/13

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Hi Brian,

I started from scratch and tried to load the font two different ways and got the same result.

The base font file I'm working with is a .otf. I set $_dompdf_show_warnings to TRUE

Method 1: Loaded font from the web interface (dompdf/www/fonts.php). This created .ttf and .ufm files in the fonts directory, as expected (their file names were hashes). Tried to create a pdf and got the results listed below.

Method 2: I used load_font.php. This succeeded with the following results:

Copying [path to original font]/Whitney OTF/Whitney-Book-Adv.otf to [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv.otf...

Generating Adobe Font Metrics for [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv...

Copying [path to original font]//Whitney OTF/Whitney-Bold-Adv.otf to [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Bold-Adv.otf...

Generating Adobe Font Metrics for [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Bold-Adv...

Copying [path to original font]/Whitney OTF/Whitney-BookItal-Adv.otf to [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-BookItal-Adv.otf...

Generating Adobe Font Metrics for [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-BookItal-Adv...

Copying [path to original font]/Whitney OTF/Whitney-BoldItal-Adv.otf to /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/nmnh/sites/all/libraries/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-BoldItal-Adv.otf...

Generating Adobe Font Metrics for [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-BoldItal-Adv...

This created .otf and .ufm files in the fonts directory. When creating a PDF, I got the results below.

10 frames 34,304 KB 593.20 ms ON DOMPDF Warnings <pre>'_dompdf_appearance' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_dompdf_appearance' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_dompdf_appearance' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_dompdf_appearance' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_dompdf_appearance' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_dompdf_appearance' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_dompdf_appearance' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'zoom' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_moz_box_sizing' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_webkit_box_sizing' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'box_sizing' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_moz_border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_webkit_border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_moz_border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_webkit_border_top_left_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_webkit_border_top_right_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_webkit_border_bottom_left_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_webkit_border_bottom_right_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_moz_border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_webkit_border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'text_shadow' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_moz_border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'_webkit_border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'box_shadow' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'overflow_x' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'overflow_y' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'box_shadow' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'box_shadow' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'box_shadow' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'box_shadow' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'box_shadow' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'box_shadow' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'box_shadow' is not a valid CSS2 property.
'border_radius' is not a valid CSS2 property.
selectFont: selecting - [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Helvetica - , 1
openFont: [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Helvetica - Helvetica
metrics: Helvetica.afm, cache: Helvetica.afm.php
openFont: build php file from [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Helvetica.afm
selectFont: checking for - [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Helvetica.
selectFont: pfb or ttf file not found, ok if this is one of the 14 standard fonts
selectFont: selecting - [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - , 1
openFont: [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - Whitney-Book-Adv
metrics: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm, cache: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm.php
openFont: no font file found for [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv. Do you need to run load_font.php?
selectFont: selecting - [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - , 1
openFont: [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - Whitney-Book-Adv
metrics: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm, cache: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm.php
openFont: no font file found for [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv. Do you need to run load_font.php?
selectFont: selecting - [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - , 1
openFont: [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - Whitney-Book-Adv
metrics: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm, cache: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm.php
openFont: no font file found for [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv. Do you need to run load_font.php?
selectFont: selecting - [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - , 1
openFont: [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - Whitney-Book-Adv
metrics: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm, cache: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm.php
openFont: no font file found for [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv. Do you need to run load_font.php?
selectFont: selecting - [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - , 1
openFont: [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - Whitney-Book-Adv
metrics: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm, cache: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm.php
openFont: no font file found for [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv. Do you need to run load_font.php?
selectFont: selecting - [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - , 1
openFont: [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - Whitney-Book-Adv
metrics: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm, cache: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm.php
openFont: no font file found for [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv. Do you need to run load_font.php?
selectFont: selecting - [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - , 1
openFont: [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv - Whitney-Book-Adv
metrics: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm, cache: Whitney-Book-Adv.afm.php
openFont: no font file found for [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/Whitney-Book-Adv. Do you need to run load_font.php?
</pre>

So, it looks like it's not appending the file extension to the filename when trying to open my font. Any ideas? Thanks!

BrianS

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Feb 27, 2013, 1:30:37 PM2/27/13

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Don't worry about the missing file extension. A lot that happens under-the-hood with fonts happens without the extension. dompdf/cpdf adds it back when looking for the actual file.

The issue is that you're using an OTF. Though php-font-lib supports OTF we haven't updated dompdf/cpdf with support for the format yet.

Jonathan

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Feb 27, 2013, 4:47:32 PM2/27/13

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Hi Brian,

Good info about .otf.

Given that, I converted the fonts to .ttf (through a web-based service). I ran load_font again, got success. There are .ttf and .afm files in the fonts directory. However, I'm still getting the same error:

10 frames 34,560 KB 640.86 ms ON DOMPDF Warnings <pre>'_dompdf_appearance' is not a valid CSS2 property.

selectFont: selecting - [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/whitneybookadv - , 1

openFont: [path to dompdf]/dompdf/lib/fonts/whitneybookadv - whitneybookadv