Question

I’m trying to implement mpdf in CodeIgniter according to this article: http://codeigniter.com/wiki/mPDF_with_Codeigniter

I did it exactly the same way that is described there, but I got an error:

mPDF Error – cannot find TTF TrueType font file – mpdf/ttfonts/DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf

But the file is there. I tested this both on a webserver and on localhost. I changed chmod, neither did that have an effect.

What can I do about it?

Answer 1

I found out what was wrong.

As recommended in the CodeIgniter Wiki, I first had _MPDF_PATH in mpdf.php set to:

if (!defined('_MPDF_PATH')) define('_MPDF_PATH','mpdf/');

After I changed it to the absolute path, everything worked. The absolute path looks like this:

if (!defined('_MPDF_PATH')) 
define('_MPDF_PATH','/home/example.com/htdocs/ci/application/libraries/mpdf/');