mpdf not supporting arabic and chinese fonts

Question

I am using mpdf. When I supplied the arabic and chinese words to the WriteHtml(), the resulting pdf containing square boxes instead of those fonts.

Please suggest!

Answer 1

You need to enable the support of PDF Asian font like this:

$pdf = $this->pdf->load();
$pdf->useAdobeCJK = true;
$pdf->SetAutoFont(AUTOFONT_ALL);

Answer 2

Add this to your php code:

$mpdf->autoScriptToLang = true;
$mpdf->autoLangToFont = true;

in css file make sure that you have:

font-family: dejavusanscondensed;
direction: rtl;

and finly make sure that all DejaVuSans*.ttf files are in ttfonts folder

Answer 3

Have you looked at the latest release, version 6? It contains a lot of upgrades for foreign languages.

Answer 4

I guess this is pretty late but I've tried this for Arabic language using version 8.x and it worked for me.

$mpdf = new Mpdf();
$mpdf->autoLangToFont = true;
$mpdf->WriteHTML($html);

I needed to add $mpdf->autoLangToFont = true; because some fonts don't render arabic and that's where it gets messy with squares, etc.

for more information here

Answer 5

On mPDF 6.0, we found this made Cantonese work for us:

$mpdf->autoScriptToLang = true;
$mpdf->autoLangToFont = true;

Seems SetAutoFont is now deprecated.