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How to use custom fonts and add multi-lingual support to converting HTML to PDF

In this article, I’ll show how Plumsail Documents action Convert HTML to PDF works with different fonts and how to convert foreign characters correctly.

Using custom fonts

Plumsail Documents action Convert HTML to PDF supports several common fonts out of the box. For example, Times New Roman or Arial:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <body>
    <p style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Times New Roman</p>
    <pstyle="font-family:Arial;">Arial</p>
  </body>
</html>
Fonts

Also, It’s possible to use CSS inside HTML code to set a default font or apply the font to a specific section of the document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
  <head>
    <style>
        p.impact {
        font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;
    }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>

      <h1>CSS font-family</h1>
      <p class="impact">Paragraph</p>

  </body>
  </html>
Fonts

Using external fonts

Convert HTML to PDF supports external fonts as well. It’s a common case when you need to include external fonts,

for example, Google fonts. The Source HTML might be the following:

<html style="color:blue;" lang="en">
<head>
  <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:[email protected]&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
  <p style="font-family:Roboto, cursive;">A custom font from fonts.google.com</p>
</body>
</html>
Fonts

Support of Unicode characters

Some fonts do not support foreign characters. Thus, to support a specific language you may need to add some specific font that supports the language.

It is possible to generate PDFs with foreign languages, or languages that contain special characters such as £. Convert HTML to PDF supports most of what is supported by UTF-8. However, you need to add the following line in the HTML head element:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
Convert HTML to PDF

Let’s take this HTML:

<html>
  <head>
  </head>
    <body>
      <p>Viðskipti verkefni</p>
    </body>
</html>

Without this code

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

the result will look like this:

Fonts

After adding this part unicode characters should be converted properly.

<html>
  <head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  </head>
    <body>
      <p>Viðskipti verkefni</p>
    </body>
</html>
Fonts

These are supported languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrey, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Interlingua, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Mongolian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian, Upper Sorbian, Turkish, Uyghur, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

Hint

Please have a look at this article How to convert HTML to PDF in Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) and Azure Logic Apps .