Make phantomjs (nodejs system) use local fonts instead of webfonts

Question

I ran into the problem of rendering very large pdf files from html with phantomjs 2.1.1

The mentioned solution was to install fonts locally on ubuntu & then have phantomjs use these.

Does anybody have experience doing this?

Answer 1

You should install the libfreetype6, libfreetype6-dev, libfontconfig1 and libfontconfig1-dev packages:

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev -y
sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev -y

You may also need to set the following value in your bash profile:

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8