Fonts Available When Using Visualforce PDF Rendering

1<apex:page showHeader="false" standardStylesheets="false" 
2    controller="SaveToPDF" renderAs="{! renderAs }">
3
4<apex:form rendered="{! renderAs != 'PDF' }" style="text-align: right; margin: 10px;">
5    <div><apex:commandLink action="{! print }" value="Save to PDF"/></div>
6    <hr/>
7</apex:form>
8
9<h1>PDF Fonts Test Page</h1>
10
11<p>This text, which has no styles applied, is styled in the default font for the 
12   Visualforce PDF rendering engine.</p>
13
14<p>The fonts available when rendering a page as a PDF are as follows. The first 
15listed <code>font-family</code> value for each typeface is the recommended choice.</p>
16
17<table border="1" cellpadding="6">
18<tr><th>Font Name</th><th>Style <code>font-family</code> Value to Use (Synonyms)</th></tr>
19<tr><td><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS; font-size: 14pt; ">Arial 
20    Unicode MS</span></td><td><ul>
21   <li><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS; font-size: 14pt;">Arial Unicode MS</span></li>
22    </ul></td></tr>
23<tr><td><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14pt;">Helvetica</span></td>
24    <td><ul>
25   <li><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">sans-serif</span></li>
26   <li><span style="font-family: SansSerif; font-size: 14pt;">SansSerif</span></li>
27   <li><span style="font-family: Dialog; font-size: 14pt;">Dialog</span></li>
28    </ul></td></tr>
29<tr><td><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">Times</span></td><td><ul>
30   <li><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 14pt;">serif</span></li>
31   <li><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt;">Times</span></li>
32</ul></td></tr>
33<tr><td><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14pt;">Courier</span></td>
34    <td><ul>
35    <li><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 14pt;">monospace</span></li>
36    <li><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14pt;">Courier</span></li>
37    <li><span style="font-family: Monospaced; font-size: 14pt;">Monospaced</span></li>
38    <li><span style="font-family: DialogInput; font-size: 14pt;">DialogInput</span></li>
39</ul></td></tr>
40</table>
41
42<p><strong>Notes:</strong>
43<ul>
44<li>These rules apply to server-side PDF rendering. You might see different results 
45    when viewing this page in a web browser.</li>
46<li>Text styled with any value besides those listed above receives the default font 
47    style, Times. This means that, ironically, while Helvetica's synonyms render as 
48    Helvetica, using "Helvetica" for the font-family style renders as Times. 
49    We recommend using "sans-serif".</li>
50<li>Arial Unicode MS is the only multibyte font available, providing support for the 
51    extended character sets of languages that don't use the Latin character set.</li>
52</ul>
53</p>
54 
55</apex:page>

1public with sharing class SaveToPDF {
2
3    // Determines whether page is rendered as a PDF or just displayed as HTML
4    public String renderAs { get; set; }
5
6
7    // Action method to "print" to PDF
8    public PageReference print() {
9        renderAs = 'PDF';
10        return null;
11    }
12
13}