wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (with patched qt) Characters broken and svg font converted to image

Question

sorry for another wkhtmltopdf font topic. I´m trying to convert a HTML page which uses a custom font by use of wkthmltopdf:

exec('/home/camelot/bin/wkhtmltopdf --orientation portrait --encoding utf-8 --page-size A4 --disable-smart-shrinking -T 0 -B 0 -L 0 -R 0 bill.html bill6.pdf ');

...

@font-face {
      font-family: 'camelot';
      src: url('gbcamweba-webfont.eot');
      src: url('gbcamweba-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
           url('gbcamweba-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
           url('gbcamweba-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
           url('gbcamweba-webfont.svg#camelotregular') format('svg');
      font-weight: normal;
      font-style: normal;
    }

Unfortunately some characters are broken in resulting PDF:

I´ve recognized when only using the svg version of my custom font the shapes are rendered correctly but also the type gets converted to an image.

Does one know if I can use an SVG font without converting it to an image OR how to accomplish correct font rendering?

wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4
centos 6.9
tried as base64 encoded type
tried to install the fonts in centos
tried older versions 0.9 and 0.10 ...

toni toni · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-24T15:12:10

This is how it solved it for me:

Use only OTF format no matter if the font gets installed in centos OR loaded by font-face. With otf the font is displayed correctly and stays type.

wkhtmltopdf 0.12.4 (with patched qt) Characters broken and svg font converted to image

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