PDF creation fails with custom fonts using new version of pdfmake

[sklinga]

We have a working code base to create PDF using custom fonts(Univers) with pdfmake-0.1.17.
We want to use pdfmake-0.1.23 or later for the custom links fix but we are seeing the below error with the custom fonts, is there anything changed with fonts in latest release?

TypeError: Cannot read property 'records' of undefined
at TTFFont.get (pdfmake.js:50606:28)
at new EmbeddedFont (pdfmake.js:70666:29)
at Function.PDFFont.open (pdfmake.js:37654:15)
at PDFDocument.font (pdfmake.js:37593:29)
at FontProvider.provideFont (pdfmake.js:19881:56)
at pdfmake.js:21351:28
at Array.forEach (native)
at measure (pdfmake.js:21338:14)
at TextTools.buildInlines (pdfmake.js:21145:18)
at DocMeasure.measureLeaf (pdfmake.js:20768:29)

Appreciate any help with this issue.

Regards,
Sunil

[devongovett]

@sklinga sounds like maybe the font has no name table. can you please send the file to me? [email protected]

[sklinga]

@devongovett I can not share Univers font file due to licensing restrictions, but, I tried with the below font and I got the same issue
http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts/x/Xeranthemum.ttf

Thanks again for you help!

[sklinga]

On further debugging, looks like it is failing decoding the name table. I see below error

Uncaught Error: Encoding '_sbcs' has incorrect 'chars' (must be of len 128 or 256)(…)
SBCSCodec @ pdfmake.js:52920
getCodec @ pdfmake.js:52096
getDecoder @ pdfmake.js:52118
decode @ pdfmake.js:52036
DecodeStream.readString @ pdfmake.js:51961

Strangely, when I run the code to create PDF with the same custom fonts as standalone outside our big app code base, it works fine.
The problem seems to be only when running the PDF creation within the entire app code base. Not sure if some thing else we have in our app code may have been causing the font decoding failed with recent pdfmake release!!?

Any help/pointers on this issue is greatly appreciated!

[liborm85]

Pdfmake v0.1.24 using the newer fontkit library, that are probably some bugs. :(
foliojs/fontkit#65
#818

We must wait until it fix @devongovett.

[liborm85]

@devongovett Please also see this bug #818

[liborm85]

@sklinga The same or similar error is in issue #828. Do you have <meta charset="utf-8"> in the <header>?

[liborm85]

No reaction.

[tdolphin]

I had exactly the same problem (old version <0.1.20 works but not new one) and adding
<meta charset="utf-8">
to the header solved it.

[sklinga]

Sorry for the very long delay in responding. We had to put this upgrade aside for sometime.

Adding meta tag to the header did not solve the issue in my case. I had to add the charset attribute to the script tag that is loading the pdfmake.js

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/dependencies.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

pdfmake.js and few other libraries are concatenated in to dependencies.js file.

Thanks everyone for the inputs, I appreciate the help.