How to use custom fonts in Pega paragraph rules and activity for generating PDF

I found quite time consuming to install custom fonts and use those for generating a pdf document through the HtmlToPdf activity, therefore I decided to share the steps for achieving that. The solution has been tested on Pega 8.1 which uses P4DML version 3100.PRPC1 Pro.

The high levels steps are:

• Enable logging by setting the PdfUtilImpl logger to DEBUG
• Install custom fonts
• Define CCS stylesheet
• Create an HTML rule to be passed to the HtmlToPDF activity for rendering the Html stream
• Set Dynamic System Settings for Fonts and Props folders [optional]
• Create a test activity to generate the PDF document through the HtmlToPDF OOB activity

Detailed instructions are described in the attached document. Hope you find it useful.

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