cannot generate pdf with tcpdf

Question

on my site a user can print (in pdf) the nda he accepted for some reason i cannot display the pdf

here the logic

first rewrite the rule

.htaccess RewriteRule ^nda/?$ ndapdf.php?useSessionUser=1 [L]

then the php

<?php $html = file_get_contents("/lib/nda.txt"); $html = str_replace("##user##", $_SESSION["currentUser"]); $html = str_replace("##date##", date("Y-m-d h:i:s")); require("/lib/web/tcpdf/config/lang/eng.php"); require("/lib/web/tcpdf/tcpdf.php"); $pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, "UTF-8", false); $pdf->SetCreator("mysite"); $pdf->SetAuthor("author_name"); $pdf->SetTitle("NDA"); $pdf->SetSubject("Accepted NDA"); $pdf->setHeaderFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN, "", PDF_FONT_SIZE_MAIN)); $pdf->setFooterFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA, "", PDF_FONT_SIZE_DATA)); $pdf->SetDefaultMonospacedFont(PDF_FONT_MONOSPACED); $pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(TRUE, PDF_MARGIN_BOTTOM); $pdf->setLanguageArray(array("w_page" => "")); $fontname = $p->addTTFfont("/fonts/AveriaSans-light.ttf", "TrueTypeUnicode", "", 32); $pdf->SetFont("arial", "", 10); $pdf->AddPage(); $pdf->writeHTML($html, true, false, true, false, ""); $pdf->lastPage(); $pdf->Output("/home/comp/pdf/nda/$currentUser.pdf", "F"); header("Content-Type: application/pdf\n"); read("/home/comp/pdf/nda/$currentUser.pdf");

i get:

"TCPDF ERROR: Could not include font definition file: AveriaSans-light"

the font is: ll /fonts/

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85084 2011-11-02 17:51 AveriaSans-Light.ttf

thanks

vstm · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-13 06:43:14Z

I think the problem is, that the directories cache and fonts of TCPDF (residing in the folder which path is stored in the constant K_PATH_MAIN, by default this is the TCPDF-directory) are not writeable by your webserver. Don't confuse your own fonts-directory with the one used by TCPDF internally.

The fonts directory has to be writeable because addTTFfont first converts the TTF-file and writes the output of the conversion in to the fonts directory. If later on SetFont is used with "AveriaSans-light" it tries to include those files and fails with "Could not include font definition file" if they are not found.

Tech4Wilco · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-13 14:23:10Z

vstm is right but also maybe because you have

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85084 2011-11-02 17:51 AveriaSans-Light.ttf

with capital L and in your code is lowercase l

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