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- Installation
- ============
- * Download the .zip file and unzip it
- * Create a folder e.g. /mpdf on your server
- * Upload all of the files to the server, maintaining the folders as they are
- * Ensure that you have write permissions set (CHMOD 6xx or 7xx) for the following folders:
- /ttfontdata/ - used to cache font data; improves performance a lot
- /tmp/ - used for some images and ProgressBar
- /graph_cache/ - if you are using JpGraph in conjunction with mPDF
- To test the installation, point your browser to the basic example file : [path_to_mpdf_folder]/mpdf/examples/example_basic.php
- If you wish to define a different folder for temporary files rather than /tmp/ see the note on 'Folder for temporary files' in
- the section on Installation & Setup in the manual (http://mpdf1.com/manual/).
- If you have problems, please read the section on troubleshooting in the manual.
- Fonts
- =====
- I will refer to font names in 2 ways:
- "CSS font-family name" - mPDF is designed primarily to read HTML and CSS. This is the name used in CSS e.g.
- <p style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">
- "mPDF font-family name" - the name used internally to process fonts. This could be anything you like,
- but by default mPDF will convert CSS font-family names by removing any spaces and changing
- to lowercase. Reading the name above, mPDF will look for a "mPDF font-family name" of
- 'trebuchetms'.
- The configurable values referred to below are set in the config_fonts.php file
- When parsing HTML/CSS, mPDF will read the CSS font-family name (e.g. 'Trebuchet MS') and convert
- by removing any spaces and changing to lowercase, to look for a mPDF font-family name (trebuchetms).
- Next it will look for a translation (if set) e.g.:
- $this->fonttrans = array(
- 'trebuchetms' => 'trebuchet'
- )
- Now the mPDF font-family name to be used is 'trebuchet'
- If you wish to make this font available, you need to specify the Truetype .ttf font files for each variant.
- These should be defined in the array:
- $this->fontdata = array(
- "trebuchet" => array(
- 'R' => "trebuc.ttf",
- 'B' => "trebucbd.ttf",
- 'I' => "trebucit.ttf",
- 'BI' => "trebucbi.ttf",
- )
- )
- This is the array which determines whether a font is available to mPDF. Each font-family must have a
- Regular ['R'] file defined - the others (bold, italic, bold-italic) are optional.
- mPDF will try to load the font-file. If you have defined _MPDF_SYSTEM_TTFONTS at the top of the
- config_fonts.php file, it will first look for the font-file there. This is useful if you are running
- mPDF on a computer which already has a folder with TTF fonts in (e.g. on Windows)
- If the font-file is not there, or _MPDF_SYSTEM_TTFONTS is not defined, mPDF will look in the folder
- /[your_path_to_mpdf]/ttfonts/
- Note that the font-file names are case-sensitive and can contain capitals.
- If the folder /ttfontdata/ is writeable (CHMOD 644 or 755), mPDF will save files there which it can
- re-use next time it accesses a particular font. This will significantly improve processing time
- and is strongly recommended.
- mPDF should be able to read most TrueType Unicode font files with a .ttf extension
- Truetype fonts with .ttf extension that are OpenType also work OK.
- TrueType collections (.ttc) will also work if they contain TrueType Unicode fonts.
- Character substitution
- ----------------------
- Most people will have access to a Pan-Unicode font with most Unicode characters in it such as
- Arial Unicode MS. Set $this->backupSubsFont = array('arialunicodems'); at the top of the config_fonts.php file
- to use this font when substituting any characters not found in the specific font being used.
- Example:
- You can set $mpdf->useSubstitutions = true; at runtime
- or $this->useSubstitutions = true; in the config.php file
- <p style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">This text contains a Thai character ม which does not exist
- in the Comic Sans MS font file</p>
- When useSubstitutions is true, mPDF will try to find substitutions for any missing characters:
- 1) firstly looks if the character is available in the inbuilt Symbols or ZapfDingbats fonts;
- 2) [If defined] looks in each of the the font(s) set by $this->backupSubsFont array
- NB There is an increase in processing time when using substitutions, and even more so if
- a backupSubsFont is defined.
- Controlling mPDF mode
- =====================
- The first parameter of new mPDF('') works as follows:
- new mPDF('c') - forces mPDF to only use the built-in [c]ore Adobe fonts (Helvetica, Times etc)
- 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.
- NB <html dir="rtl"> or <body dir="rtl"> are supported.
- Configuration variables changed
- ===============================
- Configuration variables are documented in the on-line manual (http://mpdf1.com/manual/).
- 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
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