Large PDF size while using UTF8 font

[SilverSilencer]

I am using tcpdf_5.0.002 and the only utf8 supported font is freeserif and when I use it my PDF file is around 1MB in size even when empty or a few words are displayed. If I don't use freeserif font size is 50kb, but I must use UTF8 characters. Is there any way to reduce that size of PDF (maybe use only Subset)?

[Simon]

Yes you can. See http://www.tcpdf.org/fonts.php

[SilverSilencer]

I have read and tried lots of things but the result is never correct (if utf8 chars show then size is large, if size is small, utf8 chars are not shown). I don't know what am I doing wrong. This is what I have now, should I change something?

    require_once('html2pdf.class.php');
    $html2pdf = new HTML2PDF('P','A4','en', true, 'UTF-8');
    $html2pdf->pdf->SetTitle('PDF');
    $html2pdf->pdf->SetDisplayMode('real');
    $html2pdf->setDefaultFont('freeserif');
    $html2pdf->writeHTML($content);
    $html2pdf->Output('new.pdf', 'D');

And the problem is only with 1 character. Is there any way to manually add some code to include that letter?

[Simon]

Have you tried setting the font like this:

$pdf->SetFont('freeserif', 'BI', 20, '', 'true');

[SilverSilencer]

I tried like this but some utf8 characher still doesn't work.

I have now found this website fonts.snm-portal.com where I can insert font and use that and it works great. So for now I will use this. :)

[NameName Name]

We are attempting to migrate to FrontAccounting and after realizing, UTF-8 was not the default (one of those wtf!? moments), we changed it as instructed.

After UTF-8, Invoice pdf file size ballooned from 12.6 KiB to 526.9KiB. (same invoice, btw) and invoice looks like crap with all the � in it.

As you can probably understand, this is not acceptable size for a simple Invoice because we have to email every Invoice to our clients.

Any ideas, how to fix this?