Short description¶

PDF creation with Generator_TcPdf fails, when I use
<pre>...</pre>
in my pdf template.
The solution could be adding font "Courier" to the TCPDF font dir.

Detailed description¶

Problem¶

1. After successfull form submission, a pdf should be created by formhandler and attached to the email

2. The pdf creation fails with this error message:
TCPDF ERROR: Could not include font definition file: courier

Cause¶

1. Im using Generator_TcPdf

2. The pdf template contains html markup with this tags:
<pre>...</pre>

3. This causes TCPDF to use the default monospaced font

4. In the TCPDF-Configurationfile the font "Courier" is defined as default font for monospaced

Please see FILE
/typo3conf/ext/formhandler/Resources/PHP/tcpdf/config/tcpdf_config.php

LINE
209

CODE
define ('PDF_FONT_MONOSPACED', 'courier');

4. The courier font is missing in the font dir

5. You might have deleted the courier font files, when deleting some of unneeded fonts, in order to free some space. At least, this was what happened to to me, when I used TCPDF in another project ;-)

Please see DIRECTORY
/typo3conf/ext/formhandler/Resources/PHP/tcpdf/fonts/

Suggested Solution¶

1. Please add Font "Courier" to font dir
/typo3conf/ext/formhandler/Resources/PHP/tcpdf/fonts/

2. These are the missing filenames:
courier.php
courierb.php
courierbi.php
courieri.php

3. You will get the files with the latest TCPDF tarball from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/files/

My Environment¶

-Formhandler 1.3.0
-Typo3 4.5.17
-PHP 5.3
-OSX Lion

Thank You

Uwe Schmelzer