"php dompdf html to pdf converter font rendering issue in v.0.6.1" Code Answer

dompdf appears to have issues with utf-8 encoding. i tried your sample with dompdf and i ran into the same issue you did. however, i also tried it with tcpdf (also free) it appears to work well.

here is the code for your sample, and the full source can be downloaded here.

<?php

header('content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8') ;//chrome
require_once('tcpdf.php');

// create new pdf document
$pdf = new tcpdf(pdf_page_orientation, pdf_unit, pdf_page_format, true, 'utf-8', false);

$pdf->setfontsubsetting(true);

$pdf->setfont('freeserif', '', 12);

$pdf->addpage();

$utf8text = '
<html><head>  
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body>
<p>தமிழ்</p>
</body></html>';

$pdf->writehtml($utf8text, true, 0, true, true);

$pdf->output('example_008.pdf', 'i');

?>

By Rodrigo Busa on February 12 2022