Coldfusion 9 - cfdocument fails to render the barcode (code 128) font as expected.

Report · Oct 04, 2018

Hi,

Trying to render the html code to PDF. I am having a hard time to figure out a way to render bar-code font using cfdocument.

- Tried installing the bar-code in local machine, didn't work

- Tried copying the font files to docker Image, didn't work

- Used @Blissful_help0D4E-face in style, still didn't work

None of those are working . Appreciate it, If anyone can jump in for a help.

Thanks

Vishnu

<cfdocument

format="PDF"

pageType = "custom"

pageHeight = "3"

pageWidth = "4"

margintop="0"

marginright="0"

marginleft="0"

marginbottom="0"

overwrite="yes"

name="pdffile"

fontembed="yes"

localUrl = yes >

@Blissful_help0D4E-face {

font-family: "Code128AB";

src: url("#expandPath('./fonts/')#Bc128ab.eot"); /* IE9 Compat Modes */

src: url("#expandPath('./fonts/')#Bc128ab.eot?##iefix") format("embedded-opentype"), /* IE6-IE8 */

url("./fonts/Bc128ab.otf") format("opentype"), /* Open Type Font */

url("#expandPath('./fonts/')#Bc128ab.svg") format("svg"), /* Legacy iOS */

url("#expandPath('./fonts/')#Bc128ab.ttf") format("truetype"), /* Safari, Android, iOS */

url("#expandPath('./fonts/')#Bc128ab.woff") format("woff"), /* Modern Browsers */

url("#expandPath('./fonts/')#Bc128ab.woff2") format("woff2"); /* Modern Browsers */

font-weight: normal;

font-style: normal;

}

.barcode {

font-family: "Code 128AB";

font-size: 35px;

margin-top: 10px;

line-height:10px;

padding: 2px;

margin: 2px;

text-align: left;

}

</style>

<html>

<body>

</body>

</html>

</cfoutput>

</cfdocument>

Report · Oct 05, 2018

Assuming a Windows platform, install the barcode TTF font on the server. CF doesn't play nice with OTF fonts in my experience.

Restart CF and that TTF font should then appear in the CF Admin settings > Fonts section.

The @font-face section in your CSS with the URL/expand-paths shouldn't be necessary. Keep in mind CF is rendering this document on the server, and CF9's "internal browser" doesn't have all the CSS bells and whistles of the latest browser versions. The simple style declaration should be enough to get it done.

.barcode {

font-family: "Code 128AB";

}

Report · Oct 10, 2018

I am using Docker, so already tried loading fonts into the container, it didn't work. We are planning tackle it by "wkhtmltopdf". Thanks for your time, paule12345.