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DocRaptor Does Google Web Fonts
Google Web Fonts are an easy way to add some panache to a website. With DocRaptor’s javascript and font-face support, they’re an easy way to add some style to a PDF.
Google’s Getting Started page has a a very simple example (reproduced below) that can be used to generate a simple PDF.
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine">
<style>
body { font-family: 'Tangerine', serif; font-size: 48px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Making the Web Beautiful!</h1>
</body>
</html>
If you’re using the Ruby Example from the DocRaptor Examples repo, you could change the PDF block to look like this (assuming you had saved the above html to a file named font-sample.html in the directory with straight_ruby_example.rb):
File.open("google-fonts-ftw.pdf", "w+") do |f|
f.write DocRaptor.create(:document_content => File.read("font-sample.html"),
:name => "google-fonts-ftw.pdf",
:document_type => "pdf",
:test => true)
end
After running the file through ruby, you should end up with a PDF named google-fonts-ftw.pdf that looks like this (caveat: I bumped up the font size, centered the text, and turned off test mode for this picture): 
And that’s it. Beautiful fonts in your PDFs with ease!
