So I am using Laravel-DomPDF by Barryvdh in my Laravel 5.4 project, which makes it super easy to create PDF documents from Laravel Views.
Kudos to Barryvdh for providing a simple way to produce PDF documents from Laravel.
So, I wanted to pull Font Awesome into the blade view for a couple of icons I had on the page. Problem was that it was not working. I tried everything suggested from full url for the link, to adding a fonts folder to /storage/app. None worked for me.
As I only need a tick and an exclamation on the page I decided to add the styles straight into the head of my blade file and use Unicode.
I found that Dom PDF already pulls in DeJaVu Fonts which is a project that is aiming for complete coverage of alphabetic scripts. The other thing is that it has a bunch of symbols. Not as awesome as Font Awesome but enough for my needs.
In between the head tags I added this.
<style>
.fa-check:before {
font-family: DejaVu Sans;
content: "\2611";
color:darkgreen;
font-size:1.2rem;
}
.fa-exclamation-triangle:before{
font-family: DejaVu Sans;
content: "\26A0";
color:darkorange;
font-size:1.2rem;
}
</style>
This is the check:
☑
And this is the exclamation:
⚠
Neat hey! Where did I get the content:”\????” from?
This was a quick and dirty solution to my issue and may help you. While I agree it’s not ideal it is better than changing to another PDF project or spending more time trying to get this to work with Font Awesome at the moment.