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Truetype font in PDF
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The aim of this document is to provide a complete description on how to embed custom fonts into a PDF document.
Requirements
- ttf2afm - available in the PDFTex utils http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/.
- afm2font.php - script made by eZ systems
Installing custom font
- Create an empty directory and copy your true type font and the script afm2font.php into it.
- Run ttf2afm on the truetype font.
- Inspect the created .afm file :
The lines describing the character should look something like this :
C 67 ; WX 537 ; N C ; B 50 -11 524 701 ; C 68 ; WX 574 ; N D ; B 84 0 522 689 ;
If all the lines start with C -1 you need to manually replace the -1 with the character offset.
Running afm2font.php
Run afm2font.php with the font name as the only parameter. Example:
php afm2font.php Times-Roman
A file calles php_Times-Roman.php should now have been created.
Installing the font
Copy the .ttf and the .font file created into lib/ezpdf/classes/fonts/.
The Font is now available for usage, and will automaticly be embeded in the PDF document.
Comments
I cannot find ttf2afm
Nguyen Tien Hy
Tuesday 22 November 2005 12:58:24 pm
I cannot find anything like "ttf2afm".
The document was old?
Install new fonts?
Frederik Holljen
Wednesday 28 July 2004 9:49:07 am