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Notes
You need to be careful of not violating any font license terms, because some
fonts are not supposed to be embedded.

12.3.5 Embedding Fonts

To use nonstandard fonts, you must tell pdflib where they are with the FontAFM, FontPFM, or
FontOutline parameters. For example, to use a TrueType font, you can do this:
pdf_set_parameter($p,”FontOutline”, “CANDY==/usr/fonts/candy.ttf”); $font = pdf_
findfont($p, “CANDY”, “host”, 1);
The double equals sign in this code tells pdflib that you are specifying an absolute path. A single
equals sign would indicate a path relative to the default font directory.
Instead of using explicit pdf_set_parameter( ) calls each time you want to use a nonstandard font,
you can tell your pdflib installation about these extra fonts by adding the FontAFM, FontPFM,
and FontOutline settings to pdflib’s pdflib.upr file.

Here’s a sample set of additions to the FontAFM and FontOutline sections of the pdflib.upr
file. The line that starts with two slashes (//) indicates the default directory for font files. The
format for the other lines is simply fontname=filename:
//usr/share/fonts FontAFM LuciduxSans=lcdxsr.afm Georgia=georgia.afm FontOutline
Arial=arial.ttf Century Gothic=GOTHIC.TTF Century Gothic Bold=GOTHICB.TTF Century
Gothic Bold Italic=GOTHICBI.TTF Century Gothic Italic=GOTHICI.TTF

You can specify an absolute path to a font file if you wish.
The following Example shows most of the built-in fonts along with the five extra AFM (Adobe
Font Metric) and two extra TrueType fonts installed in the pdflib.upr file above. It displays new
Euro currency symbol along with a collection of accented characters used in French.

Font demonstration

<?php
$p = pdf_new( );

pdf_open_file($p);
pdf_set_info($p,”Creator”,”hello.php”);
pdf_set_info;

pdf_set_info($p,”Title”,”Hello world (PHP)”);
pdf_set_parameter($p, “resourcefile”, ‘/usr/share/fonts/pdflib/pdflib.upr’);

pdf_begin_page($p,612,792);
pdf_set_text_pos($p,25,750);

$fonts = array(‘Courier’=>0,’Courier-Bold’=>0,’Courier-BoldOblique’=>0, ‘Courier-Oblique’
=>0,’Helvetica’=>0,’Helvetica-Bold’=>0, ‘Helvetica-BoldOblique’=>0,’Helvetica-Oblique’=>0,
‘Times-Bold’=>0,’Times-BoldItalic’=>0, ‘Times-Italic’=>0, ‘Times-Roman’=>0, ‘LuciduxSans’=>1,
‘Georgia’ => 1, ‘Arial’ => 1, ‘Century Gothic’ => 1, ‘Century Gothic Bold’ => 1, ‘Century Gothic
Italic’ => 1, ‘Century Gothic Bold Italic’ => 1 );

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