How to Use Standard Fonts

[Mikolaytis]

How to use standard fonts?
Found them in source code
PDFFont.prototype._standardFonts = ["Courier", "Courier-Bold", "Courier-Oblique", "Courier-BoldOblique", "Helvetica", "Helvetica-Bold", "Helvetica-Oblique", "Helvetica-BoldOblique", "Times-Roman", "Times-Bold", "Times-Italic", "Times-BoldItalic", "Symbol", "ZapfDingbats"];

I have tried to use that font names instead of font file names in VFS. But i got a exception: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'widthOfString' of null

[bpampuch]

Standard fonts aren't embedded by default, if you need them, you should add them manually as described here: #33

[Mikolaytis]

Already did that. Works fine. But fonts have a huge size :( It's sad that we can't access user's standard fonts.

[bpampuch]

AFAIK the underlying pdfkit library does not provide this, I wish it could be done easily ;)

[bpampuch]

I'm marking it as a feature request and will think about it

[loverdrive]

Any news about it?

[liborm85]

Now, there is no problem to implement this, but I do not know whether it will have any benefits.
The above-mentioned fonts pdfkit really supported, but only in ANSI (only english charset)! Furthermore, the builded file pdfmake.js would increase size about 700 kB.

[liborm85]

It will not be implemented.

[liborm85]

Standard 14 fonts are supported by pdfmake on server-side by default.
I'm implemented command for building with standard fonts for client-side by commit 903f767.

How to use standard 14 fonts in pdfmake are described in wiki page.