Node-html-pdf: Text on pdf is unselectable after creating one from html

[tahv0]

Is there a way to make text selectable? Can some option be passed?

[lukasamd]

Do you use custom fonts? If yes, try this:
https://tkacz.pro/phantom-js-use-custom-fonts-in-html-to-pdf-convert/

[tahv0]

@lukasamd Thanks for your reply. Yes I do use Custom fonts and Open Sans. But none of those are selectable. I'll try your approach if I need to develop my templates further.

[abhinava3]

@lukasamd I tried your approach but it is not working , Phantom not taking local font which I placed on
/usr/local/share/fonts/
and
/usr/share/fonts/

[B-StS]

@tahv0 @lukasamd @abhinava3
I have the same issue, my custom google font is directly on the server and is generated well in the PDF but I cannot select the text from the generated PDF.
Do you have any workaround that issue ?
Thanks

[GbalsaC]

Can confirm this issue is solved by installing fonts locally.

Follow this steps (after downloading custom fonts to server):
cd /usr/share/fonts
sudo mkdir googlefonts
cd googlefonts
sudo unzip -d . ~/Downloads/Open_Sans.zip (Unzip to googlefonts folder)
sudo chmod -R --reference=/usr/share/fonts/opentype /usr/share/fonts/googlefonts (can be truetype instead of opentype)

Register fonts with:
sudo fc-cache -fv

Check if installed:
fc-match OpenSans

Also it's important to check that html template you're using has the original font tag removed, otherwise it'll not use the local.