Text styling with added fonts

[mchibok]

I needed to use a unicode font because other fonts included (times and helvetica) in the module could not print a long hyphen ("–").

So I tried a couple of other fonts, but everytime I try to use a particular font style, I get an "Undefined font" error:

• Roboto: Undefined font: robotoB
• DejaVuSans: Undefined font: dejavusansB

They were added with:

pdf.add_font('DejaVuSans', '', fname='./font/DejaVuSans.ttf')
pdf.add_font('roboto', '', fname='./font/Roboto-Regular.ttf')

What is the best way to go: should I change the font names in the folder (Roboto-Bold.ttf to RobotoB.ttf and DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf to DejaVuSansB.ttf) for the module to pick them up automatically or should I instead add the bold font and rename it and use that name when I want to use the bold styling as in: pdf.add_font('robotobold', '', fname='./font/Roboto-Bold.ttf') ?

Thanks for your help!

[mchibok]

Well, I guess I didn't read the docs correctly and realised with the help of this video that you can set bold and italics to the same font name by specifying 'style' parameter.
Thank you! :)

[Lucas-C]

Glad you found a solution by yourself! 😊
If you have any suggestion to improve some sections of our documentation about this, they would be welcome!
You can even submit a PR if you want.