How can I use custom fonts?

[sergio9929]

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Hello,

I'm trying to use Satoshi, a custom font from FontShare, and I'm not being able to get it working. I've tried downloading the font and adding this to the html options in exportToPDF():

fontFaces: [{
    family: 'satoshi',
    weight: 'normal',
    src: [{
        url: '/GHM6WVH6MILNYOOCXHXB5GTSGNTMGXZR.woff',
        format: 'woff',
    }]
}],

I've googled about it and everyone is adding the font using jsPDF.addFont() and setFont() and I don't know how to access to those things outside of exportToPDF().then().

I'm of course using the font in my css:

html {
    overflow-x: hidden;
    background-color: var(--base-color);
    color: var(--primary-color);
    font-size: 16px;
    font-family: 'Satoshi', sans-serif;
    scroll-behavior: smooth;
}

And I also console logged jsPDF.getFontList():

{
    "helvetica": [
        "normal",
        "bold",
        "italic",
        "bolditalic"
    ],
    "Helvetica": [
        "",
        "Bold",
        "Oblique",
        "BoldOblique"
    ],
    "courier": [
        "normal",
        "bold",
        "italic",
        "bolditalic"
    ],
    "Courier": [
        "",
        "Bold",
        "Oblique",
        "BoldOblique"
    ],
    "times": [
        "normal",
        "bold",
        "italic",
        "bolditalic"
    ],
    "Times": [
        "Roman",
        "Bold",
        "Italic",
        "BoldItalic"
    ],
    "zapfdingbats": [
        "normal"
    ],
    "ZapfDingbats": [
        ""
    ],
    "symbol": [
        "normal"
    ],
    "Symbol": [
        ""
    ]
}

Help would be much appreciated 🙂

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[sergio9929]

I have solved the problem. After this and several other problems, such as not being able to compress pdfs, I decided to remove nuxt-pdf and just use jsPDF directly.

After that the problems were over. Now my pdfs are 400KB instead of 8MB and have a nice typography.

Here is the composable I created to easily export things to pdf with jsPDF:

import jsPDF, { HTMLWorker } from 'jspdf';

export const useHTMLToPDF = (filename: string, html: string | HTMLElement): HTMLWorker => {
    const doc = new jsPDF({
        orientation: 'portrait',
        unit: 'mm',
        format: 'a4',
        putOnlyUsedFonts: true,
        floatPrecision: 4,
        compress: true,
    });

    return doc.html(html, {
        callback: function (doc) {
            doc.save(`${filename}.pdf`)
        },
        margin: [10, 10, 10, 10],
        image: { quality: .9, type: 'jpeg' },
        autoPaging: 'text',
        x: 0,
        y: 0,
        width: 190, //target width in the PDF document
        windowWidth: 1000, //window width in CSS pixels
        fontFaces: [
            {
                family: 'Satoshi',
                weight: 'normal',
                src: [{
                    url: '/Satoshi-Regular.ttf',
                    format: 'truetype',
                }]
            },
            {
                family: 'Satoshi',
                weight: 'bold',
                src: [{
                    url: '/Satoshi-Bold.ttf',
                    format: 'truetype',
                }]
            },
        ],
        html2canvas: {
            onclone(document) {
                document.documentElement.classList.add('exportToPDF')
            },
        }
    })
}

Note that you have to put your custom fonts in /public for this to work.

Usage:

useHTMLToPDF(filename, pdfSection.value).then(jsPDF => {
    // successfully exported

    useNotify({ text: 'Exportado correctamente', icon: 'heroicons:document-check', theme: 'success' })
}).catch(error => {
    // error

    console.error(error)
    useNotify({ text: 'Error', icon: 'heroicons:exclamation-circle', theme: 'warning' })
})

[MickL]

Can you leave the issue open? Apparently custom fonts are not usable in nuxt-pdf.