Question about PDFGenerationAPI fillDocumentFieldsAndFlatten method with font

[zynsn]

Hi ServiceNow Community,

How do we set the font used when we want to use the method fillDocumentFieldsAndFlatten method from the PDFGenerationAPI? By default, it keeps filling in the PDF with the font Arial. I want to use Times New Roman.

Thanks.

[Sandeep Rajput]

@zynsn Font family can be set only via the convertToPDF method of PDFGenerationAPI. Details can be found here https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/vancouver-api-reference/page/app-store/dev_portal/API_reference/P...

There is also a nicely written article which shows how font family can be updated via covertToPDF method.

https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-articles/generating-custom-pdfs-using-the-new-pdfgene...

However, setFontColor and setFontSize methods are available.

SN_PDFGENERATORUTILS

setFontColor(Color color): https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference/api/utah/server/sn_pdfgeneratorutils-namespace/S...

setFontSize(Number fontSize): https://developer.servicenow.com/dev.do#!/reference/api/utah/server/sn_pdfgeneratorutils-namespace/S...

[zynsn]

Hi Sandeep,

Thank you for the information. Would it be possible to use fillDocumentFieldsAndFlatten method and then use the convertToPDF method to set the font?

[Amit Gujarathi]

HI @zynsn ,
I trust you are doing great.
Please find below sample code for the same :

// Pseudo-code example
var pdfGen = new PDFGenerationAPI();
var config = {
    fontName: 'Times New Roman' // Specify the font here
};

pdfGen.fillDocumentFieldsAndFlatten(template, fields, config);

[zynsn]

Hi Amit,

That doesn't work. It seems like the font cannot be set when using the fillDocumentFieldsAndFlatten method.