Font Awesome in PDF documents

[Martin]

Is there any way of adding a font awesome character to a table cell ? or anywhere really.

regards

Martin

[Sowmiya Loganathan]

Hi Martin, 

Thank you for contacting Syncfusion support. 

We can achieve your requirement of “Add font awesome characters to a table cell” using the font file “fontawesome-webfont.ttf”. Please refer the below code snippet for more details, 

//Create a new PDF document 

PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument(); 

 

//Add a page 

PdfPage page = document.Pages.Add(); 

 

//Create font 

FileStream fontFileStream = new FileStream("fontawesome-webfont.ttf", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read); 

PdfFont font = new PdfTrueTypeFont(fontFileStream, 14); 

 

//Create a PdfGrid 

PdfGrid pdfGrid = new PdfGrid(); 

 

//Create a DataTable 

DataTable dataTable = new DataTable(); 

 

//Add columns to the DataTable 

dataTable.Columns.Add("Font Name"); 

dataTable.Columns.Add("Awesome Character"); 

 

//Add rows to the DataTable 

dataTable.Rows.Add(new object[] { "fontawesome-webfont", "\uf02d" }); 

 

//Assign data source 

pdfGrid.DataSource = dataTable; 

 

//Add cell style 

PdfGridCellStyle cellStyle = new PdfGridCellStyle(); 

cellStyle.Font = font; 

pdfGrid.Rows[0].Cells[1].Style = cellStyle; 

 

//Draw grid to the page of PDF document 

pdfGrid.Draw(page, new PointF(10, 10)); 

 

//Save the document 

MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(); 

document.Save(stream); 

document.Close(true); 

Output document: https://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/forum/148392/pd/Sample-126018619  

Please find the .ttf file downloaded link from below, 

https://github.com/creationix/boxcode/blob/master/font/fontawesome-webfont.ttf  

Please try the above code snippet in your end and let us know the result. 

Regards, 

Sowmiya Loganathan