unable to print a greek character in pdf using php script & fpdf

Question

while trying to print a greek character 'φ' I get the following character printed on the pdf 'φ'

Answer 1

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FPDF has its own guide for importing new fonts for specific encodings. The steps are:

1. Go to http://www.fpdf.org/makefont/ and upload the .ttf or .otf file of your font (make sure font is supporting greek characters like Courier New).
2. For the encoding option select ISO-8859-7 (preferably) or cp1253 according to the guide.
3. Download the .php and .z files that are created and store them on fpdf/font folder (like the default fonts) of the fpdf package.
4. Import the font at runtime to the pdf file $pdf->AddFont('Courier New', '', 'Courier New.php');
5. And use it $pdf->SetFont('Courier New', '', 20);
6. You have to convert the string you will print to ISO-8859-7 encoding. This is done with $text = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-7', $text);
7. Then you can finally print the string $pdf->Write(20,$text);