I have try to create pdf in Laravel. Usebarryvdh/laravel-dompdf vendor package class. My pdf content English and Gujarati text. but gujarati content print as ?????? in pdf.
I have create pdf succesfully use this type of code pdfview is my pdf php, html content file view
view()->share('data',$data);
$pdf = PDF::loadView('pdfview');
return $pdf->stream('pdfview.pdf');
// return $pdf->download('pdfview.pdf');
I have expected to pdf content as English and Gujarati text content. Actual result in pdf Gujarati content print like ????
use wkhtmltopdf, make sure to install all unicode library related to Gujarati language. I tried it for sinhala in ubuntu and centos.
"????" is because the font in not there by default in barryvdh/laravel-dompdf package. 1.You need to download the fonts that supports gujrati. 2.After downloading, just put the the .ttf file to your font assets folder. 3.Then use the css @font-face to explicitly declare your font supporting the gujrati characters. Just for example (using simhei.ttf). FYI, this is in my template.blade.php file
<style type="text/css">
@font-face {
font-family: SimHei;
src: url('{{base_path().'/public/report_assets/'}}fonts/simhei.ttf') format('truetype');
}
* {
font-family: SimHei;
}
</style>
<body>
//gujrati characters
.......
Thats it