dompdf Urdu Words Not Joining Issue
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enhancement
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- PHP
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Description
Font is loading but characters are separated tried so many other URDU language fonts like zoya font, noto_nastaliq_urdu font but nothing worked.
My complete code is
<?php
require_once "vendor/autoload.php";
use Dompdf\Dompdf;
use Dompdf\CanvasFactory;
use Dompdf\Exception;
use Dompdf\FontMetrics;
use Dompdf\Options;
use FontLib\Font;
ini_set("display_errors", true);
ini_set("error_log", "phperr.log");
ini_set("log_errors", true);
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$pdf = new Dompdf(new Options([
'defaultPaperSize' => 'a4',
'defaultPaperOrientation' => 'portrait',
'isRemoteEnabled' => true,
'allowUrlFopen' => true,
'isHtml5ParserEnabled' => true,
'isFontSubsettingEnabled' => false,
'direction' => 'rtl',
]));
// define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_HTML5PARSER", true);
$pdf->loadHtml('
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
@font-face {
font-family: "Zoya";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
src: url(http://localhost/dompdf/drive/zoya-regular-1.ttf);
}
* {
font-family: "Zoya";
font-style: normal;
font-weight: 400;
direction: rtl;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<span> اردو پوائنٹ </span>
</body>
',"UTF-8");
$pdf->render();
$pdf->stream('test.pdf', array('Attachment'=> 0 ));
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Research direction
Start by running the provided PHP example with the Zoya font and Urdu text, then inspect the rendering path used for character joining and right-to-left text. Done means the Urdu characters render as connected words in the generated PDF rather than as separated glyphs.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css, html, php
- Domain
- backend, internationalization
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100