TCPDF supports TrueTypeUnicode (UTF-8 Unicode), OpenTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, CID-0 and Core (standard) fonts.
You will find font creation utility at fonts/utils of TCPDF… copy desired font to fonts/utils/svnlabs.ttf
* For TrueTypeUnicode
# cd /var/www/html/tcpdf/fonts/utils
# ttf2ufm -a -F svnlabs.ttf
# php -q makefont.php svnlabs.ttf svnlabs.ufm
* For embedded fonts to tcpdf PDF file.. copy the resulting svnlabs.php, svnlabs.z and svnlabs.ctg.z to fonts folder
Uses:
<?php
……..
$pdf->SetFont(‘svnlabs’,’I’,8);
……….
?>
Sandeep Verma 
Mi
January 5, 2010 at 10:15 am
Worked well, thanks!
mango
May 9, 2011 at 6:18 am
hi Mi,
i do follow this too but not work
i still get result as(????).
how should i do.please help me.
superrefman
January 12, 2010 at 9:41 am
Thank you for this. It is very imformative stuff.
Cordialy
Christoph
May 19, 2010 at 10:16 am
Thanks, you saved my day. I was searching for over 2 hours for a way too use arial in my PDFs.
Darko
July 13, 2010 at 8:10 am
This must be done on Linux or can it be done in Win? 🙂
Chung
July 20, 2010 at 6:33 am
Hi there, your article is very useful, but I have another problem. I have 3 font files for normal, italic, bold. how can I use it with the same name
Tan chhay tha
November 8, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Dear ,
I have problem convert khmer unicode with pdf
could you tell me the url for downlaod this font
thank !
Robbin
November 13, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Hi! I’m trying to convert a TTF on CentOS but when I want to execute the ttf2ufm script it returns an error: -bash: ttf2ufm: command not found. How can I fix this? Thanks!
poorna
December 11, 2010 at 10:53 am
malayalam font support ? how to convert it to the type in windows system
abhi
February 10, 2011 at 11:24 am
Hi,
i want to install Arial font on my pdf but i don’t know how to do it please somebody help me
Frenda
March 17, 2011 at 11:12 pm
it’s work, but it can’t be bolder or italic at pdf. Why? it can’t be helped
mbi
May 5, 2011 at 9:45 am
Where I must execute this: php -q makefont.php svnlabs.ttf svnlabs.ufm??
I have this error: php is not a command
sasa
May 19, 2011 at 10:28 am
You probbaly have to do this to run php from command line
http://windows.fyicenter.com/60_PHP_Configuring_PHP_Execution_Environments.html
auit
July 1, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Hi have a new font converter for txpdf fonts
http://fonts.snm-portal.com/
vuaize
July 11, 2011 at 10:05 am
Hi, here all is made for you :
http://www.xml-convert.com/en/convert-tff-font-to-afm-pfa-fpdf-tcpdf