[Chennaipy] [chennaigeeks] Need help - HTML to PDF with Custom Fonts

[Shrinivasan T]

Awesome.

Thanks.
On 14 Feb 2016 05:36, "selvan" <p.thamarai at gmail.com> wrote:

> Able to generate PDF with Sundaram-10.TTF font using latest Phantomjs
> (Have used version 2.1.1).
>
> Here is the link to sample PDF output of the same :
> https://github.com/selvan/phantomjs-customfont/blob/master/index.pdf
>
> Sample code is at https://github.com/selvan/phantomjs-customfont/
>
> Looks like older Phantomjs versions (1.9.x) was't supporting custom web
> fonts.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> We are looking for a solution to convert html pages to A4 pdf and B7 pdf
>> for FreeTamilEbooks.com project
>>
>>
>> Training authors to create ebooks themself using Pressbooks.com
>> They can export epub, mobi, xhtml from pressbooks.
>>
>>
>> Now, few volunteers are converting xhtml to PDF by printing from Firefox.
>> by changing the margin and printer settings in Firefox.
>>
>> see point 8 at
>> https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2014/02/01/how-to-create-an-ebook-for-free-tamil-ebooks-com/
>>
>> Many authors find that this is difficult.
>>
>> Looking for a solution to automate the process of converting XHTML to A4
>> and B7 size PDFs so that we add a web interface, host in server, ask
>> authors to upload epub or xhtml file to get PDF files as outputs.
>>
>> Explored PhantomJS
>>
>> http://we-love-php.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/create-pdf-invoices-with-html5-and-phantomjs.html
>>
>> We want to use custom TTF fonts for Tamil.
>> Ila Sundaram-10.TTF is the font we want to use.
>>
>> Tried to set this font via CSS using @font-face.
>> But the PDFs are not using this font.
>>
>> Explored wkhtmltopdf
>> It is not rendering B7 size properly and can not set custom font.
>>
>> Looking for volunteers to explore the PhantomJS or wkhtmltopdf to
>> generate PDF files from HTML with custom font.
>>
>> reply here or contact me if you are interested to volunteer.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> T.Shrinivasan
>>
>>
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>>
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