sFPDF

Informations

Author: Ian Back
License: LGPL

Description

This class is a modified version of FPDF that adds UTF-8 support. Moreover, it embeds only the necessary parts of the fonts that are used in the document, making the file size much smaller than if the whole fonts were embedded. These features were originally developed for the mPDF project.

Before you can use UTF-8, you have to install at least one Unicode font in the font/unifont directory. Some free font packages are available for download (extract them into font/unifont):

Fonts from the DejaVu family:

DejaVu Sans
DejaVu Sans Condensed
DejaVu Serif
DejaVu Serif Condensed
DejaVu Sans Mono

Fonts from the GNU FreeFont family:

FreeSans
FreeSerif
FreeMono

You can also make your own fonts by pointing your browser to font/unifont/makefonts/makefonts.php and following instructions (if you're on Windows).

Then, to use a Unicode font in your script, pass true as the fourth parameter of AddFont().

Note: this class requires the mbstring extension.