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 

 

[Stefan Limpert]

Hello Sowmiya,

i also want to export a Grid with columns contains several FontAwesome icons. How can i achieve to export these icons with pdf export of Grid?

Regards

Stefan

[Rajapandiyan Settu]

Hi Martin,

Currently, The EJ2 Grid does not have support to export icons and custom elements. You can export images and hyperlinks from the Grid. Please find the below demo for your reference.

Demo: https://ej2.syncfusion.com/aspnetcore/Grid/DefaultExporting#/fluent

We logged a feature task for your requirement as “Need to provide support for exporting grid with column template and Detail template” and added it to our feature request database. At the planning stage for every release cycle, we review all open features and identify features for implementation based on specific parameters including product vision, technical feasibility, and customer interest. This feature will be included in any of our upcoming releases. 

Feedback Link: https://www.syncfusion.com/feedback/10384/need-to-provide-support-for-exporting-grid-with-column-template-and-detail

You can communicate with us regarding the open features any time using the above Feature Report page.  

Regards,

Rajapandiyan S