Custom font faces in jsPDF?

Question

Is it possible to include custom fonts in jsPDF ?

With the basic library, if I console log 'doc.getFontList()' I get:

Courier, Helvetica, Times, courier, helvetica, times

But, say I want to use 'Comic Sans' ( not that I would ;o) ) can it be done ?

Even better, could I use a font is locally stored and has been declared in the site with @font-face ?

Answer 1

I found this was possible by modifying jsPDF.js to expose the existing addFont method in the public API.

In jsPDF.js, look for:

//--------------------------------------- // Public API 

Add the following:

    API.addFont = function(postScriptName, fontName, fontStyle) {       addFont(postScriptName, fontName, fontStyle, 'StandardEncoding');     }; 

I put this method near other font methods for clarity - API.setFont, API.setFontSize, API.setFontType, etc.

Now in your code, use:

doc.addFont('ComicSansMS', 'Comic Sans', 'normal'); doc.setFont('Comic Sans'); doc.text(50,50,'Hello World'); 

This works for me with @font-face fonts included with css before loading jsPDF, as well as system fonts. There's probably a better way to do this using jsPDF's plugin framework, but this quick and dirty solution should at least get you going.

Note that doc.getFontList() will not show added fonts:

// TODO: iterate over fonts array or return copy of fontmap instead in case more are ever added.