TCPDF supports TrueTypeUnicode (UTF-8 Unicode), TrueType, Type1, CID-0 and Core (standard) fonts. All TCPDF fonts must be embedded on the PDF document, unless you are using standard fonts whith Unicode mode disabled. The PDF Core (standard) fonts are: * courier : Courier * courierb : Courier Bold * courierbi : Courier Bold Italic * courieri : Courier Italic * helvetica : Helvetica * helveticab : Helvetica Bold * helveticabi : Helvetica Bold Italic * helveticai : Helvetica Italic * symbol : Symbol * times : Times New Roman * timesb : Times New Roman Bold * timesbi : Times New Roman Bold Italic * timesi : Times New Roman Italic * zapfdingbats : Zapf Dingbats Setting up a font for usage with TCPDF requires the following steps: 1. Convert all font filenames to lowercase. 2. Generate the font's metrics file. * For Type1 font files this first step is not necessary because the AFM file is usually shipped with the font. In case you have only a metric file in PFM format, use the pfm2afm utility (fonts/utils/pfm2afm.exe) to get the AFM file. If you own a Type1 font in ASCII format (.pfa), you can convert it to binary format with Type 1 utilities. * For TrueTypeUnicode or TrueType font files, use the the provided ttf2ufm utility (fonts/utils/ttf2ufm.exe): $ ttf2ufm -a -F myfont.ttf * For OpenType font files: $ ttf2ufm -a -F myfont.otf 3. Run makefont.php script: * For TrueTypeUnicode $ php -q makefont.php myfont.ttf myfont.ufm * For OpenTypeUnicode $ php -q makefont.php myfont.otf myfont.ufm * For TrueType: $ php -q makefont.php myfont.ttf myfont.afm * For OpenType $ php -q makefont.php myfont.otf myfont.afm * For Type1: $ php -q makefont.php myfont.pfb myfont.afm You may also specify additional parameters: MakeFont(string $fontfile, string $fmfile [, boolean $embedded [, $enc="cp1252" [, $patch=array()]]]) * $fontfile : Path to the .ttf or .pfb file. * $fmfile : Path to the .afm file for Type1 and TrueType or .ufm for TrueTypeUnicode. * $embedded : Set to false to not embed the font, true otherwise (default). * $enc : Name of the encoding table to use. Default value: cp1252. Omit this parameter for TrueType Unicode, OpenType Unicode and symbolic fonts like Symbol or ZapfDingBats. The encoding defines the association between a code (from 0 to 255) and a character. The first 128 are fixed and correspond to ASCII. The encodings are stored in .map files. Those available are: o cp1250 (Central Europe) o cp1251 (Cyrillic) o cp1252 (Western Europe) o cp1253 (Greek) o cp1254 (Turkish) o cp1255 (Hebrew) o cp1257 (Baltic) o cp1258 (Vietnamese) o cp874 (Thai) o iso-8859-1 (Western Europe) o iso-8859-2 (Central Europe) o iso-8859-4 (Baltic) o iso-8859-5 (Cyrillic) o iso-8859-7 (Greek) o iso-8859-9 (Turkish) o iso-8859-11 (Thai) o iso-8859-15 (Western Europe) o iso-8859-16 (Central Europe) o koi8-r (Russian) o koi8-u (Ukrainian) Of course, the font must contain the characters corresponding to the chosen encoding. The encodings which begin with cp are those used by Windows; Linux systems usually use ISO. * $patch : Optional modification of the encoding. Empty by default. This parameter gives the possibility to alter the encoding. Sometimes you may want to add some characters. For instance, ISO-8859-1 does not contain the euro symbol. To add it at position 164, pass array(164=>'Euro'). 4. Copy the resulting .php, .z and .ctg.z (if available) files to the TCPDF fonts directory. 5. Rename php font files variations using the following schema: * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase].php for regular font * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]b.php for bold variation * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]i.php for oblique variation * [basic-font-name-in-lowercase]bi.php for bold oblique variation