Bangla font in pdf in Laravel using mpdf

Bangla Font in PDF Laravel(MPDF Package).In this tutorial we will learn step by step process how to download bangla font as pdf without having no font breakdown.For that we will use mPDF package.We can use many package for pdf like DomPDF but in DomPDF it has given font error For bangla font.For that we will use mPDF and it will give beautiful bangla font in pdf file.

Following are the steps

1. Require this package in your composer.json
   
   "require": { "carlos-meneses/laravel-mpdf": "2.1.6" }

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   "require": { "carlos-meneses/laravel-mpdf": "2.1.6" }

2. Run on terminal
   
   composer require carlos-meneses/laravel-mpdf

   1	composer require carlos-meneses/laravel-mpdf

3. Add following in config/app.php
   
   'providers' => [ // ... Meneses\LaravelMpdf\LaravelMpdfServiceProvider::class ] 'aliases' => [ // ... 'MPDF' => Meneses\LaravelMpdf\Facades\LaravelMpdf::class ]

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   'providers' => [   // ...   Meneses\LaravelMpdf\LaravelMpdfServiceProvider::class   ]   'aliases' => [   // ...   'MPDF' => Meneses\LaravelMpdf\Facades\LaravelMpdf::class   ]

4. Run on terminal
   
   php artisan vendor:publish

   1	php artisan vendor:publish

5. Search ‘nikosh ttf’’ ,go to https://www.omicronlab.com/bangla-fonts.html , A file called Nikosh.ttf will be downloaded,Then go to project/vendor\mpdf\mpdf\ttfonts directory and paste this .ttf file
6. Go to project/vendor/mpdf/mpdf/src/Config/FontVariables.php ,open FontVariables.php and search for ‘indics’ ,then after pothana2000 ,add follwoing code
   
   "nikosh" => [ 'R' => "Nikosh.ttf", 'useOTL' => 0xFF, ],

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   "nikosh" => [ 'R' => "Nikosh.ttf", 'useOTL' => 0xFF, ],

   
   or
   
   /* Indic */ "lohitkannada" => [ 'R' => "Lohit-Kannada.ttf", 'useOTL' => 0xFF, ], "pothana2000" => [ 'R' => "Pothana2000.ttf", 'useOTL' => 0xFF, ], "nikosh" => [ 'R' => "Nikosh.ttf", 'useOTL' => 0xFF, ],

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   /* Indic */ "lohitkannada" => [ 'R' => "Lohit-Kannada.ttf", 'useOTL' => 0xFF, ], "pothana2000" => [ 'R' => "Pothana2000.ttf", 'useOTL' => 0xFF, ], "nikosh" => [ 'R' => "Nikosh.ttf", 'useOTL' => 0xFF, ],

   
   
7. Go to project/config/ and create pdf.php
   
   <?php return [ 'mode' => '', 'format' => 'A4', 'default_font_size' => '12', 'default_font' => 'nikosh', // 'margin_left' => 10, // 'margin_right' => 10, 'margin_top' => 35px, // 'margin_bottom' => 10, // 'margin_header' => 0, // 'margin_footer' => 0, 'orientation' => 'P', 'title' => 'Laravel mPDF', 'author' => '', 'watermark' => '', 'show_watermark' => false, 'watermark_font' => 'sans-serif', 'display_mode' => 'fullpage', 'watermark_text_alpha' => 0.1, 'custom_font_dir' => '', 'custom_font_data' => [], 'auto_language_detection' => false, 'temp_dir' => rtrim(sys_get_temp_dir(), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR), 'pdfa' => false, 'pdfaauto' => false, 'use_active_forms' => false, ];

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   <?php     return [ 'mode'                     => '', 'format'                   => 'A4', 'default_font_size'        => '12', 'default_font'             => 'nikosh', // 'margin_left'              => 10, // 'margin_right'             => 10, 'margin_top'               => 35px, // 'margin_bottom'            => 10, // 'margin_header'            => 0, // 'margin_footer'            => 0, 'orientation'              => 'P', 'title'                    => 'Laravel mPDF', 'author'                   => '', 'watermark'                => '', 'show_watermark'           => false, 'watermark_font'           => 'sans-serif', 'display_mode'             => 'fullpage', 'watermark_text_alpha'     => 0.1, 'custom_font_dir'          => '', 'custom_font_data'        => [], 'auto_language_detection'  => false, 'temp_dir'                 => rtrim(sys_get_temp_dir(), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR), 'pdfa'                => false,   'pdfaauto'              => false, 'use_active_forms'         => false, ];

8. Laravel controller ,add
   use MPDF;

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   use MPDF;

9. Laravel controller function
   
   //data from query $empresult = DB::select(DB::raw("SELECT id FROM tablename1")); $dateformatMMYY = DB::select(DB::raw("SELECT id FROM tablename2")); $result = DB::select(DB::raw("SELECT id FROM tablename3")); //MPDF part below 2 lines $pdf=MPDF::loadView('Employee_History.empdata.pdfview_emp_his',compact('empresult','dateformatMMYY','result'), [], [ 'title' => 'Another Title' // 'margin_top' => 0 ]); return $pdf->download('document.pdf');

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   //data from query $empresult = DB::select(DB::raw("SELECT id FROM tablename1")); $dateformatMMYY = DB::select(DB::raw("SELECT id FROM tablename2")); $result = DB::select(DB::raw("SELECT id FROM tablename3"));   //MPDF part below 2 lines   $pdf=MPDF::loadView('Employee_History.empdata.pdfview_emp_his',compact('empresult','dateformatMMYY','result'), [], [                           'title' => 'Another Title'                           // 'margin_top' => 0                         ]); return $pdf->download('document.pdf');

   
   Here Employee_History.empdata.pdfview_emp_his =projectfolder/resources/view/Employee_History/empdata/pdfview_emp_his.blade.pdf or the  view of pdf
   ’empresult’,’dateformatMMYY’,’result’ are data from query ,MPDF::loadView= it will load the view of pdf with data[compact]

   return $pdf->download(‘document.pdf’); here download will help to download the file and  ‘document.pdf’ will be the filename of downloaded PDF

For package info https://packagist.org/packages/carlos-meneses/laravel-mpdf

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