General ======= mPDF 5.0 has improved font handling making it a lot easier to use any (TrueType) fonts you want, without having to prepare extra font files. Users of mPDF 4.x and before ============================ mPDF 5.0 now works with TrueType .ttf font-files directly, and can embed subsets of fonts in TrueType form. There is no longer any need to use pre-prepared font files in different codepages (win-1251, iso-8859-2 etc.). Once the new system for using fonts is set up correctly, most of your scripts should work as before. Nevertheless I strongly suggest testing mPDF 5.0 without deleting your previous set-up. ---------------------- Installation - cf. in manual Character substitution - cf. in manual ---------------------- Controlling mPDF mode ===================== The first parameter of new mPDF('') now works as follows: new mPDF('c') - forces mPDF to only use the built-in [C]ore Adobe fonts (Helvetica, Times etc) This was previously set using $this->useOnlyCoreFonts (depracated) new mPDF('') - default - font subsetting behaviour is determined by the configurable variables $this->maxTTFFilesize and $this->percentSubset (see below) Default values are set so that: 1) very large font files are always subset 2) Fonts are embedded as subsets if < 30% of the characters are used new mPDF('..-x') - used together with a language or language/country code, this will cause mPDF to use only in-built core fonts (Helvetica, Times) if the language specified is appropiate; otherwise it will force subsetting (equivalent to using "") e.g. new mPDF('de-x') or new mPDF('pt-BR-x') will use in-built core fonts and new mPDF('ru-x') will use subsets of any available TrueType fonts The languages that use core fonts are defined in config_cp.php (using the value $coreSuitable). new mPDF('..+aCJK') new mPDF('+aCJK') new mPDF('..-aCJK') new mPDF('-aCJK') - used optionally together with a language or language/country code, +aCJK will force mPDF to use the Adobe non-embedded CJK fonts when a passage is marked with e.g. "lang: ja" This can be used at runtime to override the value set for $mpdf->useAdobeCJK in config.php Use in conjunction with settings in config_cp.php For backwards compatibility, new mPDF('-s') and new mPDF('s') will force subsetting by setting $this->percentSubset=100 (see below) new mPDF('utf-8-s') and new mPDF('ar-s') are also recognised Language/Country (ll-cc) ------------------------ You can use a language code ('en') or language/country code ('en-GB') to control which mode/fonts are used. The behaviour is set up in config_cp.php file. The default settings show some of the things you can do: new mPDF('de') - as German is a Western European langauge, it is suitable to use the Adobe core fonts. Using 'de' alone will do nothing, but if you use ('de-x'), this will use core fonts. new mPDF('th') - many fonts do not contain the characters necessary for Thai script. The value $unifonts defines a restricted list of fonts available for mPDF to use. new mPDF('ar') - The value $dir will set the default directionality to RTL, which affects default text-alignment, layout of lists etc. new mPDF('hi') - As Hindi is a cursive script, $spacing="W" will force any spacing used to justify text to affect word spacing, not character spacing. NB or are now both supported. Previous users: "codepages" --------------------------- The old "codepages" are ignored: new mPDF('win-1251') or new mPDF('utf-8') is now treated as new mPDF('') new mPDF('win-1251-s') is now treated as new mPDF('s') Configuration variables changed =============================== Most configuration variables are unchanged, and are documented in the on-line manual (http://mpdf1.com/manual/). Removed (now ignored/inactive) ------------------------------ $this->useOnlyCoreFonts (previous alias $use_embeddedfonts_1252) $this->use_CJK_only Added (config.php) ------------------ $this->useAdobeCJK - forces all CJK text to use Adobe's CJK language font pack. $this->debugfonts - set this to true to reveal error messages if having trouble with fonts // This value determines whether to subset or not // mPDF will embed the whole font if >x% characters in that font have been used // or embed subset if percentSubset = 30; // Set maximum size of TTF font file to allow non-subsets - in kB // Used to avoid large files like Arial Unicode MS ever being fully embedded // This takes precedence over the value of $this->percentSubset $this->maxTTFFilesize = 2000; NB $this->useSubstitutionsMB is depracated (but will still work as an alias for useSubstitutions). Font folders ============ If you wish to define your own font file folders (perhaps to share), you can define the 2 constants in your script before including the mpdf.php script e.g.: define('_MPDF_TTFONTPATH','your_path/ttfonts/'); define('_MPDF_TTFONTDATAPATH','your_path/ttfontdata/'); // should be writeable ====================================================================== For more information on fonts, especially Arabic, CJK and Indic fonts, see FONT INFO.txt ======================================================================