cfdocument: font not rendering

Report · Sep 26, 2010

Hi: I have a webpage that prints a photo with text underneath that is in specific fonts.

This works fine when it is rendered as a normal webpage: the fonts display exactly as they should, but when I wrap the code with a CFDOCUMENT tage the fonts revert to standard fonts i.e., the wrong donts.

I'm tearing my hair out. Does anyone have any ideas?

thanks.

..Robert

Here's the code:

<?xml version="1.0″ encoding="UTF-8″?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>XHTML-document</title>

@Blissful_help0D4E-face
    {font-family:"Cambsdfria Math";
    panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@Blissful_help0D4E-face
    {font-family:Calibri;
    panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@Blissful_help0D4E-face
    {font-family:"Gotham XNarrow Bold";
    panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@Blissful_help0D4E-face
    {font-family:"Gotham XNarrow Book";
    panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@Blissful_help0D4E-face
    {font-family:"Gotham XNarrow Black";
    panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@Blissful_help0D4E-face
    {font-family:AngssdfanaUPC;
    panose-1:2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
    {margin-top:0cm;
    margin-right:0cm;
    margin-bottom:10.0pt;
    margin-left:0cm;
    line-height:115%;
    font-size:11.0pt;
    font-family:"Calsdfibri","sans-serif";}
.MsoPapDefault
    {margin-bottom:10.0pt;
    line-height:115%;}
@page WordSection1
    {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
    margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
    {page:WordSection1;}

</style>

</head>

<tr>
    <td width="3"></td>
    <td align="center" width="138" height="11"><span style='font-size:9pt;font-family:"Gotham XNarrow Bold"'>14 First Street</span></td>
    <td width="3"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
    <td width="3"></td>
    <td align="center" width="138" height="11"><span style='font-size:9pt;font-family:"Gotham XNarrow Book"'>145 sq ft, two-storey, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, full fin basement, more details to come.</span></td>
    <td width="3"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
    <td width="3"></td>
    <td align="center" width="138" height="11"><span style='font-size:9pt;font-family:"Gotham XNarrow Bold"'>Mark Jones</span></td>
    <td width="3"></td>
</tr>

<tr>
    <td width="3"></td>
    <td align="center" width="138" height="11"><span style='font-size:9pt;font-family:"Gotham XNarrow Bold"'><em>Realty Office</em></span></td>
    <td width="3"></td>
</tr>

</table>

</body>
</html>

</cfdocument>

Report · Sep 26, 2010

Is the font installed on the server, or only on your computer? If you

want CF to embed a font, the CF server needs to have access to the

font. Check CFAdmin for a list of fonts that ColdFusion knows about.

-Mike Chabot

Report · Sep 27, 2010

The fonts are installed and they show properly when I don't use the

cfdocument tag.

..Robert

Report · Sep 27, 2010

I should have added that they are installed properly on the server and

they show through CF Admin on the server.

..R

Report · Sep 27, 2010

Acrobat Reader will lists the fonts that are contained in a PDF

document (File > Properties > Fonts). Is there any trace of the font

you want in that list, or is it missing? If the font is in the list is

there a note next to the name saying "embedded?"

-Mike Chabot

Report · Sep 27, 2010

There are just two fonts listed in the pdf: both are times roman.

I guess that means it doesn't even see the fonts I want to use and is

substituting with common fonts, but the fonts I want to use are showing

in CF Admin.

Is there some way of forcing them to be seen by CFDOCUMENT, I wonder?

..Robert

Report · Sep 27, 2010

Maybe try the basic HTML font tag instead of style sheets to see if

that helps with the font embedding.

-Mike Chabot

Report · Oct 27, 2010

Hi,

Is it possible to embed fonts from an external source into cfdocument? For example, I have tried the following but it didn't work.

<cfdocument fontembed="yes" format="pdf">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine">

</head>

<body>

<div style="font-family:'Tangerine';">Testing 123</div>

</body>
</html>
</cfdocument>

Report · Nov 24, 2010

I may be wrong, but we had a similar issue recently - try playing around with how you name the font in your CSS going into cfdocument. In CF Admin under Font Management each font has three names - "Font Family", "Font Face" and "Postscript Name" - I believe if you're using the wrong one in your CSS then it won't embed properly.

Might not be the fix, but it's a simple one to test.

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