Is there a way to require TTFFont with Browserify?

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Hey, thanks for this library.

I need to embed a custom font in a browser-generated PDF. It seems that’s not currently possible, but if I could instantiate a TTFFont in my build step with TTFFont.open("path/to/font", "Font Name"), (I think?) I could pass it to doc.font when I’m generating the PDF.

Is there a way to require TTFFont? I’m not Node-experienced enough to know how, my naïve attempts like require('pdfkit').TTFFont and require('pdfkit/font/ttf') have all failed.

Or maybe I should just read the .ttf into a buffer myself?

[devongovett]

You can load the ttf into an arraybuffer using ajax and pass that to doc.font. See here: #340 (comment). I need to add this to the docs as there have been many questions about this.

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It worked. Thanks so much!

[zacronos]

It is also possible to bypass the AJAX call if you want to embed the font data into your javascript directly. First, you need to include this Buffer implementation: https://github.com/feross/buffer

Then, you will need to base64-encode the contents of the file somehow.

Finally, do something like:

var myFont = Buffer("...base64-font-data...", "base64");
doc.font(myFont, 12)

[devongovett]

If you're using browser, I recommend brfs to automatically turn fs.readFileSync calls into inline buffers, like you described above.