pdfmake printing issues

[pcpuser]

please some of the pdfs generated by the pdfmake are not printable by printers. Some of the documents when printed would print characters such as "!#&@$" . Some printers would error out "49.4C02". Please excuse me if I have not given enough details, but can you suggest how we can get around printer issues, and, is there a way to generate image instead of pdf.

Your help is really appreciated

[pcpuser]

the major culprit is the Roboto fonts.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38383
#33

[ankurgathia]

I embedded arial font, that is also not work....

[bpampuch]

Unfortunately I'm unable to reproduce this :(

[Mikolaytis]

i think that's exactly that's i am got in #103 . It's reproducing in the playground.
I have already tried to find and fix that... unsuccessful

[pcpuser]

We used the following approach to fix the problem

See comment from 'tonitornado' - foliojs/pdfkit#69.

• Get ttf font files => normal, bold, italic and italic bold; (we used times new roman)
• Convert the ttf to otf => http://everythingfonts.com/ttf-to-otf;
• Convert otf to ttf => http://everythingfonts.com/ttf-to-otf;
• Build fonts on pdfmake => Use custom font (via vfs_fonts.js) #33;
• Replace vfs_fonts.js

[Mikolaytis]

Can you give a completed vfs_fonts.js? I am using times new roman too

[bpampuch]

@pcpuser - thanks for the links !!!

I've upgraded Roboto fonts (vfs_fonts in 0.1.11 already contains them). Can't check them though (I don't have a troublesome printer).

[bpampuch]

related to #113, working now

[ghost]

Tinkering with pdfMake, I found that in making a table, if a data value is a number rather than a string, it causes an error in DocMeasure in measureNode. I got an "Unrecognized document structure: 25" so I had to wrap in String().

Any thoughts on a pdfMakeLite? A 367kb min.js file is pretty a large file! Things like compression, Roboto default font, etc. might be candidates to remove (I only want to print tables!). Angular.min is only about 100kb.