FPDF set FONT_PATH

Rails
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hi all,
im using ruby FPDF to generate my pdf. the problem im facing now is i
need to use some new font that is not included in basic fpdf font. then
i have generated the font using the makefont.rb. but then i dont know
how to define the font_path in ruby. the font work great in PHP-FPDF. Is
anybody there had solved the problem im facing now.

** sorry for my english …

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On Jul 2, 2006, at 7:54 PM, raziq zaki wrote:

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In order to set the font path, you need to define the constant
FPDF_FONTPATH in your subclass of FPDF. You should do something
like this:

class My_PDF_Document < FPDF

FPDF_FONTPATH = “/path/to/my/new/font”

your code here…

end

When the pdf document is created, the code looks for the font
in the directory “/path/to/my/new/font”.

Kim

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raziq zaki wrote:

hi all,
im using ruby FPDF to generate my pdf. the problem im facing now is i
need to use some new font that is not included in basic fpdf font. then
i have generated the font using the makefont.rb. but then i dont know
how to define the font_path in ruby. the font work great in PHP-FPDF. Is
anybody there had solved the problem im facing now.

** sorry for my english …

Raziq,
there are some embeding font problems I recognized in FPDF library that
I found workaround so tell if you still have problems.

Bojan

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Bojan M.
Informatika Mihelac, Bojan M. s.p. | www.informatikamihelac.com
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raziq wrote:

thanks all,
i manage to create my pdf with the font. But when i open the pdf file
created, there an error saying cannot extract the embedded font. the
font display is not what im aspected.

im not defined the FPDF_FONTPATH in my script, but hardcoded it in
fpdf.rb.

did this method give me the error.

Raziq,
if you use FPDF on windows then change (line 1014 of rpdf.rb):

putstream(IO.read(file))

to:

File.open(file, “rb”) { |io| putstream(io.read) }

so the file would be read read in binary mode.

hope it helps,
Bojan

–
Bojan M.
Informatika Mihelac, Bojan M. s.p. | www.informatikamihelac.com
→ tools, scripts, tricks from our code lab: http://source.mihelac.org

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I’m still a noob with Rails so please forgive me but…

How do I use makefont to generate the font files. I currently have a
japanese font ttf file that I want to use.

Thanks

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thanks all,
i manage to create my pdf with the font. But when i open the pdf file
created, there an error saying cannot extract the embedded font. the
font display is not what im aspected.

im not defined the FPDF_FONTPATH in my script, but hardcoded it in
fpdf.rb.

did this method give me the error.