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I agree with <a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/members/bigeven2002.html" rel="ugc">@bigeven2002</a> regarding &quot;... no special map file for fonts, that is just the encoding ...&quot; (I know nothing about fpdf, so can't comment on that). 
 
Most TrueType / OpenType fonts contain definitions of hundreds (if not thousands) of characters. 
 
For fully 'international' alphabets, applications use a multi-byte encoding; these days, this will usually be Unicode, or the UTF-8 transformation format of this encoding. 
 
Applications which still use single-byte character encodings are limited to a maximum of 256 different characters; it will usually be less than this (typically 192 or 224 'graphic' characters and 64 or 32 non-graphic 'control-code' characters). 
 
The different 'maps', or encodings, are just definitions of which 256-character subset, from the much (much) larger repertoires offered by Unicode, is to be used. 
 
As regards which map / character set to use: 
 
If you want to use single-byte encoding in the Western world, use the ISO-8859-1 Latin-1 set, or perhaps the Windows Latin-1 superset of this (which uses character codes in the 'reserved C1 control codes' range (0x80 -&gt; 0x9f) for additional graphic glyphs, such as the Euro sign).
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bigeven2002, 
 
OK, that created the files perfectly. Do I have to use AddFont in fpdf to make it available for SetFont? 
 
Thanks, 
 
Richard
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OK thanks for the update. &nbsp;From what I read, yes you will need to run AddFont to make it available: 
 

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41813969-1">$pdf-&gt;AddFont('FREESCPT','','FREESCPT.php');
</code></pre>
 
Then 
 

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-41813969-2">$pdf-&gt;SetFont('FREESCPT');
</code></pre>
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I'm using a thing called fpdf, it is a pdf generator works great, based on php. 
 
It comes with of course a bunch of the &quot;standard&quot; fonts. 
 
I want to use a script style font like Freestyle Script in Word or something similar. Fpdf has a poorly documented feature too make font files (that are php files) from things called .map files, for example cp1250.map. 
 
How can I get a &quot;map&quot; file for Freestyle Script or something similar? Preferably free or small charge. 
 
Thanks
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I'm using a thing called fpdf, it is a pdf generator works great, based on php.

It comes with of course a bunch of the "standard" fonts.

I want to use a script style font like Freestyle Script in Word or something similar. Fpdf has a poorly documented feature too make font files (that are php files) from things called .map files, for example cp1250.map.

How can I get a "map" file for Freestyle Script or something similar? Preferably free or small charge.

Thanks

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