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+<title>Adding new fonts and encoding support</title>
+<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="../fpdf.css">
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+table {border-collapse:collapse; border-style:solid; border-width:2px; border-color:#A0A0A0 #000000 #000000 #A0A0A0}
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+<body>
+<h1>Adding new fonts and encoding support</h1>
+This tutorial explains how to use TrueType, OpenType and Type1 fonts so that you are not limited to
+the standard fonts any more. The other benefit is that you can choose the font encoding, which allows
+you to use other languages than the Western ones (the standard fonts having too few available characters).
+<br>
+<br>
+Remark: for OpenType, only the format based on TrueType is supported (not the one based on Type1).
+<br>
+<br>
+There are two ways to use a new font: embedding it in the PDF or not. When a font is not
+embedded, it is searched in the system. The advantage is that the PDF file is lighter; on the other
+hand, if it's not available, a substitution font is used. So it's preferable to ensure that the
+needed font is installed on the client systems. If the file is to be viewed by a large audience,
+it's highly recommended to embed.
+<br>
+<br>
+Adding a new font requires two steps:
+<ul>
+<li>Generation of the font definition file</li>
+<li>Declaration of the font in the script</li>
+</ul>
+For Type1, you need the corresponding AFM file. It's usually provided with the font.
+
+<h2>Generation of the font definition file</h2>
+The first step consists in generating a PHP file containing all the information needed by FPDF;
+in addition, the font file is compressed. To do this, a helper script is provided in the makefont
+directory of the package: makefont.php. It contains the following function:
+<br>
+<br>
+<code>MakeFont(<b>string</b> fontfile, [, <b>string</b> enc [, <b>boolean</b> embed]])</code>
+<dl class="param" style="margin-bottom:2em">
+<dt><code>fontfile</code></dt>
+<dd>
+<p>Path to the .ttf, .otf or .pfb file.</p>
+</dd>
+<dt><code>enc</code></dt>
+<dd>
+<p>Name of the encoding to use. Default value: <code>cp1252</code>.</p>
+</dd>
+<dt><code>embed</code></dt>
+<dd>
+<p>Whether to embed the font or not. Default value: <code>true</code>.</p>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+The first parameter is the name of the font file. The extension must be either .ttf, .otf or .pfb and
+determines the font type. If your Type1 font is in ASCII format (.pfa), you can convert it to binary
+(.pfb) with the help of <a href="http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/type/#t1utils" target="_blank">t1utils</a>.
+<br>
+<br>
+For Type1 fonts, the corresponding .afm file must be present in the same directory.
+<br>
+<br>
+The encoding defines the association between a code (from 0 to 255) and a character. The first 128 are
+always the same and correspond to ASCII; the following are variable. Encodings are stored in .map
+files. The available ones are:
+<ul>
+<li>cp1250 (Central Europe)</li>
+<li>cp1251 (Cyrillic)</li>
+<li>cp1252 (Western Europe)</li>
+<li>cp1253 (Greek)</li>
+<li>cp1254 (Turkish)</li>
+<li>cp1255 (Hebrew)</li>
+<li>cp1257 (Baltic)</li>
+<li>cp1258 (Vietnamese)</li>
+<li>cp874 (Thai)</li>
+<li>ISO-8859-1 (Western Europe)</li>
+<li>ISO-8859-2 (Central Europe)</li>
+<li>ISO-8859-4 (Baltic)</li>
+<li>ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic)</li>
+<li>ISO-8859-7 (Greek)</li>
+<li>ISO-8859-9 (Turkish)</li>
+<li>ISO-8859-11 (Thai)</li>
+<li>ISO-8859-15 (Western Europe)</li>
+<li>ISO-8859-16 (Central Europe)</li>
+<li>KOI8-R (Russian)</li>
+<li>KOI8-U (Ukrainian)</li>
+</ul>
+Of course, the font must contain the characters corresponding to the chosen encoding.
+<br>
+<br>
+Remark: the standard fonts use cp1252.
+<br>
+<br>
+After you have called the function (create a new file for this and include makefont.php), a .php file
+is created, with the same name as the font file. You may rename it if you wish. If the case of embedding,
+the font file is compressed and gives a second file with .z as extension (except if the compression
+function is not available, it requires Zlib). You may rename it too, but in this case you have to change
+the variable <code>$file</code> in the .php file accordingly.
+<br>
+<br>
+Example:
+<div class="source">
+<pre><code>&lt;?php
+<span class="kw">require(</span><span class="str">'makefont/makefont.php'</span><span class="kw">);
+
+</span>MakeFont<span class="kw">(</span><span class="str">'c:\\Windows\\Fonts\\comic.ttf'</span><span class="kw">,</span><span class="str">'cp1252'</span><span class="kw">);
+</span>?&gt;</code></pre>
+</div>
+which gives the files comic.php and comic.z.
+<br>
+<br>
+Then copy the generated files to the font directory. If the font file could not be compressed, copy
+it directly instead of the .z version.
+<br>
+<br>
+Another way to call MakeFont() is through the command line:
+<br>
+<br>
+<kbd>php makefont\makefont.php c:\Windows\Fonts\comic.ttf cp1252</kbd>
+<br>
+<br>
+Finally, for TrueType and OpenType fonts, you can also generate the files
+<a href="http://www.fpdf.org/makefont/">online</a> instead of doing it manually.
+
+<h2>Declaration of the font in the script</h2>
+The second step is simple. You just need to call the <a href='../doc/addfont.htm'>AddFont()</a> method:
+<div class="source">
+<pre><code>$pdf<span class="kw">-&gt;</span>AddFont<span class="kw">(</span><span class="str">'Comic'</span><span class="kw">,</span><span class="str">''</span><span class="kw">,</span><span class="str">'comic.php'</span><span class="kw">);
+</span></code></pre>
+</div>
+And the font is now available (in regular and underlined styles), usable like the others. If we
+had worked with Comic Sans MS Bold (comicbd.ttf), we would have written:
+<div class="source">
+<pre><code>$pdf<span class="kw">-&gt;</span>AddFont<span class="kw">(</span><span class="str">'Comic'</span><span class="kw">,</span><span class="str">'B'</span><span class="kw">,</span><span class="str">'comicbd.php'</span><span class="kw">);
+</span></code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<h2>Example</h2>
+Let's now see a complete example. We will use the font <a href="http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/52" target="_blank">Calligrapher</a>.
+The first step is the generation of the font files:
+<div class="source">
+<pre><code>&lt;?php
+<span class="kw">require(</span><span class="str">'makefont/makefont.php'</span><span class="kw">);
+
+</span>MakeFont<span class="kw">(</span><span class="str">'calligra.ttf'</span><span class="kw">,</span><span class="str">'cp1252'</span><span class="kw">);
+</span>?&gt;</code></pre>
+</div>
+The script gives the following report:
+<br>
+<br>
+<b>Warning:</b> character Euro is missing<br>
+<b>Warning:</b> character zcaron is missing<br>
+Font file compressed: calligra.z<br>
+Font definition file generated: calligra.php<br>
+<br>
+The euro character is not present in the font (it's too old). Another character is missing too.
+<br>
+<br>
+Alternatively we could have used the command line:
+<br>
+<br>
+<kbd>php makefont\makefont.php calligra.ttf cp1252</kbd>
+<br>
+<br>
+or used the online generator.
+<br>
+<br>
+We can now copy the two generated files to the font directory and write the script:
+<div class="source">
+<pre><code>&lt;?php
+<span class="kw">require(</span><span class="str">'fpdf.php'</span><span class="kw">);
+
+</span>$pdf <span class="kw">= new </span>FPDF<span class="kw">();
+</span>$pdf<span class="kw">-&gt;</span>AddFont<span class="kw">(</span><span class="str">'Calligrapher'</span><span class="kw">,</span><span class="str">''</span><span class="kw">,</span><span class="str">'calligra.php'</span><span class="kw">);
+</span>$pdf<span class="kw">-&gt;</span>AddPage<span class="kw">();
+</span>$pdf<span class="kw">-&gt;</span>SetFont<span class="kw">(</span><span class="str">'Calligrapher'</span><span class="kw">,</span><span class="str">''</span><span class="kw">,</span>35<span class="kw">);
+</span>$pdf<span class="kw">-&gt;</span>Write<span class="kw">(</span>10<span class="kw">,</span><span class="str">'Enjoy new fonts with FPDF!'</span><span class="kw">);
+</span>$pdf<span class="kw">-&gt;</span>Output<span class="kw">();
+</span>?&gt;</code></pre>
+</div>
+<p class='demo'><a href='tuto7.php' target='_blank' class='demo'>[Demo]</a></p>
+
+<h2>About the euro symbol</h2>
+The euro character is not present in all encodings, and is not always placed at the same position:
+<table>
+<tr><th>Encoding</th><th>Position</th></tr>
+<tr class="alt0"><td>cp1250</td><td>128</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt1"><td>cp1251</td><td>136</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt0"><td>cp1252</td><td>128</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt1"><td>cp1253</td><td>128</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt0"><td>cp1254</td><td>128</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt1"><td>cp1255</td><td>128</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt0"><td>cp1257</td><td>128</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt1"><td>cp1258</td><td>128</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt0"><td>cp874</td><td>128</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt1"><td>ISO-8859-1</td><td>N/A</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt0"><td>ISO-8859-2</td><td>N/A</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt1"><td>ISO-8859-4</td><td>N/A</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt0"><td>ISO-8859-5</td><td>N/A</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt1"><td>ISO-8859-7</td><td>N/A</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt0"><td>ISO-8859-9</td><td>N/A</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt1"><td>ISO-8859-11</td><td>N/A</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt0"><td>ISO-8859-15</td><td>164</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt1"><td>ISO-8859-16</td><td>164</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt0"><td>KOI8-R</td><td>N/A</td></tr>
+<tr class="alt1"><td>KOI8-U</td><td>N/A</td></tr>
+</table>
+ISO-8859-1 is widespread but does not include the euro sign. If you need it, the simplest thing
+to do is to use cp1252 or ISO-8859-15 instead, which are nearly identical but contain the precious
+symbol.
+
+<h2>Reducing the size of TrueType fonts</h2>
+Font files are often quite voluminous; this is due to the fact that they contain the characters
+corresponding to many encodings. Zlib compression reduces them but they remain fairly big. A
+technique exists to reduce them further. It consists in converting the font to the Type1 format
+with <a href="http://ttf2pt1.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">ttf2pt1</a> (the Windows binary is
+available <a href="http://www.fpdf.org/fr/dl.php?id=22">here</a>) while specifying the encoding
+you are interested in; all other characters will be discarded.
+<br>
+For example, the arial.ttf font that ships with Windows Vista weights 748 KB (it contains 3381 characters).
+After compression it drops to 411. Let's convert it to Type1 by keeping only cp1250 characters:
+<br>
+<br>
+<kbd>ttf2pt1 -b -L cp1250.map c:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf arial</kbd>
+<br>
+<br>
+The .map files are located in the makefont directory of the package. The command produces
+arial.pfb and arial.afm. The arial.pfb file weights only 57 KB, and 53 after compression.
+<br>
+<br>
+It's possible to go even further. If you are interested only by a subset of the encoding (you
+probably don't need all 217 characters), you can open the .map file and remove the lines you are
+not interested in. This will reduce the file size accordingly.
+</body>
+</html>