Dompdf with special characters (UTF-8)

I’m not really into php, but sometime you just have no other option. And you know: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Recently I have been struggling for few hours how to generate pdf from html, that looks like original page and show proper characters. I my case I had problem to print czech chars like ěščřžýáíé. 

First I found recommendation to use Sans Deja Vu font family, which looks like s*it.

Than I finaly found not outdated howto on official github page. In short:

    1. Download and install Dompdf
    2. Download dompdf-utils (don’t know why its not part of Dompdf anymore ?!) and copy laod_font.php in you dompdf folder
    3. And finally!
php load_font.php Arial /path/to/arial.ttf

Now you should have your font installed and you can use it in you php script like:

<?php
$html = '<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ěščřžýáíé</p>
</body>
</html>';
require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/Libraries/dompdf/autoload.inc.php'; //$rendererLibrary;
$dompdf = new \Dompdf\Dompdf();
$dompdf->load_html($html, 'UTF-8');
$dompdf->set_paper('A4');
$dompdf->render();
file_put_contents('test.pdf', $dompdf->output());

Uff.. Why do I feel like this?
yvkiMWS
Hmm, php is not my cup of tea.

Buy me a coffeeOut of coffee 😱, please help!