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Using Unicode with TCPDF

I want to use Malayalam (an Indian language) fonts in a PDF file from a PHP application. How can I use Unicode fonts in TCPDF?

Solution

  • You need to set the $unicode parameter on the TCPDF constructor to false and the $encoding parameter to 'ISO-639-2'(Wiki says)

    $pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, false, 'ISO-639-2', false);

    or if the above doesn't work and if you got the malayalam font, set it this way.

    $fontname = $pdf->addTTFfont('/path-to-font/malayalam.ttf', 'TrueTypeUnicode', '', 32);

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