Documentation: Missing information on font integration

[vresetnikov]

Trying to use JsBarcode on the backend and the documentation's font section is proving to be inadequate. There is very little written about fonts, especially on how to use them in the backend and what little there is is ambiguous:

Define the font used for the text in the generated barcode. This can be any default font or a font defined by a [@font-face](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face) rule.

Considering that the environment is backend, I am assuming the @font-face part can be immediately discarded in this case. So with only 1 sentence remaining mentioning the fonts, the following questions emerge:

1. What default fonts? Apart from a couple non-standard font strings shown and the monospace font indicated as the default, they are not listed nor is it shown how to integrate them. The default one, monospace, will fail to load on Linux systems by the way.
2. Using what little information there is, I am trying to integrate Helvetica font and I am getting the following warning:

Pango-WARNING **: 12:38:24.590: couldn't load font "Helvetica Bold Not-Rotated 40px", falling back to "Sans Bold Not-Rotated 40px", expect ugly output.

[apss-pohl]

Hi,
i am also struggling with the font. Did you find a solution?
I want to add it to the svg and use it but is has no effect. My code looks like this:

  const xmlSerializer = new XMLSerializer();
  const document = new DOMImplementation().createDocument('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml', 'html');
  const styleElement = document.createElement('style');
  
  const location =
    '/public/fonts/DejaVuSansMono.ttf';
  const contents = fs.readFileSync(location, { encoding: 'base64' });

  // Append the style element to the document's head
  const headElement = document.createElement('head');
  document.documentElement.appendChild(headElement);
  headElement.appendChild(styleElement);

  styleElement.textContent =
    "@font-face { font-family: 'DejaVuSansMono'; src: url(data:font/ttf;base64," +
    contents +
    ") format('truetype'); }";

  const svgNode = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'svg');
  const defaultOptions = {
    xmlDocument: document,
    height: 30,
    displayValue: false,
    margin: 0,
    fontSize: 14,
    font: 'DejaVuSansMono',
  };
  options = { ...defaultOptions, ...options };

  JsBarcode(svgNode, barcodeText, options);

  return 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + btoa(xmlSerializer.serializeToString(svgNode));