Google Web Fonts and PDF generation from HTML with wkhtmltopdf

Question

I am using wkhtmltopdf to convert HTML files in PDF format; it gives surprisingly good results, rendering the PDF exactly as WebKit would do.

I am using Google Web Fonts to give users the possibility to customize the appearence of the document they edited, offering them the possibility to choose between a few fonts. It also works perfectly in a browser.

Problem is, I don't get the Google Fonts working when converting such HTML files to PDF with wkhtmltopdf. I read other people had the same issue.

Could anyone please help me fixing this?

EDIT: declaring @font-face directly in the CSS does not work either.

Answer 1

To convert HTML to PDF by wkhtmltopdf try to avoid woff font face. Use the truetype format of the Google Web Fonts with base64 encode.

Recently I tried to use a Google web font from Google Web Fonts. In the browser it shows correctly but it doesn't show after converting HTML to PDF.

After searching the web extensively, at last, I found tools to encode fonts to the base64 format and also got CSS for @font-face.

Read the solution here.