# Create a new project

composer create-project laravel/laravel aark-global-app

# Install the latest dompdf package

composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf:^3.1

# Publish the configuration

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Barryvdh\DomPDF\ServiceProvider"

Step 2: Choosing Your Global Fonts

Standard fonts don't contain the glyphs needed for complex scripts. At AARK, we recommend:

• Chinese: simhei.ttf (Heiti style for professional documents).
• Hindi: NotoSansDevanagari-Regular.ttf (Google’s "No Tofu" standard).

Place these .ttf files inside your storage/fonts/ directory.

Step 3: The Controller Logic

In version 3.1, enabling the HTML5 parser is essential for correctly rendering multi-byte characters.

use Barryvdh\DomPDF\Facade\Pdf

public function generateGlobalPdf() {

    $pdf = Pdf::loadView('pdf.report', $data)

        ->setOption([

            'isHtml5ParserEnabled' => true,

            'enable_font_subsetting' => true, // Crucial for SimHei to keep file sizes small

        ]);

    return $pdf->download('AARK-Global-Report.pdf');

}

Step 4: The Blade Template

<style>

    @font-face {

        font-family: 'SimHei';

        src: url("{ { storage_path('fonts/simhei.ttf') } }") format("truetype");

    }

    @font-face {

        font-family: 'NotoHindi';

        src: url("{ { storage_path('fonts/NotoSansDevanagari-Regular.ttf') } }") format("truetype");

    }

    .chinese { font-family: 'SimHei', sans-serif; }

    .hindi { font-family: 'NotoHindi', sans-serif; }

</style>

<div class="chinese">AARK 技术中心 - 您的全球合作伙伴</div>

<div class="hindi">एएआरके टेक्नोलॉजी हब - आपका वैश्विक भागीदार</div>

Step 5: The VPS Deployment "Gotcha"

Here is where most developers fail. On Windows/Local, this works instantly. But on a Linux VPS, you must manually create and set permissions for the font cache.

# Run these on your VPS

mkdir -p storage/fonts

chmod -R 775 storage/fonts

chown -R www-data:www-data storage/fonts

Without these permissions, dompdf cannot write the .ufm files, and your PDF will crash in production.

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