Pagedjs: how to render PDF while keeping text selectable/editable? - html

Question

I am using pagedjs to render a pdf and using their starter kit: https://gitlab.coko.foundation/pagedjs/starter-kits/book-spread_esm
When I export a pdf via the page print function, the text is selectable as you would expect.
But when I change the font, the text is not selectable.
In other examples, they have changed the font and the pdf has rendered properly (text is selectable) example: https://gitlab.coko.foundation/pagedjs/starter-kits/book_avanced-interface
So I know this must be possible.
What I have tried
I initially imported the fonts from Google Fonts as follows:
Style.css:
#import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:ital,wght#0,100;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;1,100;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600&display=swap');
body{
font-family: 'Montserrat', 'sans-serif';
}
...
The fonts render correctly, but text is not selectable.
Next, I looked at the advanced example with fonts and saw that they defined local fonts as follows:
Inside: /fonts/VG5000/stylesheet.css:
#font-face {
font-family: 'VG5000';
src: url('VG5000-Regular_web.eot');
src: url('VG5000-Regular_web.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('VG5000-Regular_web.woff') format('woff'),
url('VG5000-Regular_web.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('VG5000-Regular_web.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('VG5000-Regular_web.svg#svgFontName') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Then it is used in /style-print.css as:
h1{
font-family: 'VG5000';
text-align: center;
}
So I mimicked this with my fonts (albeit a bit more complicated):
File structure in /fonts/Montserrat/:
static/
\_Montserrat-Black.ttf
\_Montserrat-BlackItalic.ttf
\_Montserrat-Bold.ttf
\_Montserrat-BoldItalic.ttf
\_Montserrat-ExtraBold.ttf
\_Montserrat-ExtraBoldItalic.ttf
\_Montserrat-ExtraLight.ttf
\_Montserrat-ExtraLightItalic.ttf
\_Montserrat-Italic.ttf
\_Montserrat-Light.ttf
\_Montserrat-LightItalic.ttf
\_Montserrat-Medium.ttf
\_Montserrat-MediumItalic.ttf
\_Montserrat-Regular.ttf
\_Montserrat-SemiBold.ttf
\_Montserrat-SemiBoldItalic.ttf
\_Montserrat-Thin.ttf
\_Montserrat-ThinItalic.ttf
Montserrat-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf
Montserrat-VariableFont_wght.ttf
stylesheet.css
Inside /fonts/Montserrat/stylesheet.css:
#font-face {
font-family: 'Montserrat';
src: url('static/Montserrat-Thin.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 100;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Montserrat';
src: url('static/Montserrat-Light.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 300;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Montserrat';
src: url('static/Montserrat-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Montserrat';
src: url('static/Montserrat-Medium.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 500;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'Montserrat';
src: url('static/Montserrat-SemiBold.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: 600;
font-style: normal;
}
This renders properly on the website, but on PDF the font does not load:
Web rendering:
PDF rendering:
It is the same as before, text is not selectable.
The final thing I have tried is looking in the docs, specifically searching font site:pagedjs.org, but there is nothing specific in the documentation about fonts and editable pdfs.