Feature request from seansan, posted on GitHub Jun 17, 2013
Fix default Magento font in order PDF (and filesize of 1MB +)
Please have a look at the code alterations here:
http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/4812/why-is-my-invoice-pdf-1mb
How about we provide a font dropdown in backend to select our own font. And default this to Helvetica?
Now users can choose. (and actually choose for small PDF files)