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A bite-sized case study of declaring fonts in a PDF document:
Zend_Pdf (from the makers of PHP no less):
$mainstyle = new Zend_Pdf_Style();
$mainstyle->setFont(Zend_Pdf_Font::fontWithName(Zend_Pdf_Font::FONT_HELVETICA), 9);
FPDF (open source project last updated 3 years ago):
$fpdf->SetFont(’Arial’,”,9);
FPDF wins.