Documenting the System - Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management - page 266

To use a different font file, we must first add it to the library (tools are present in the
original tcpdf kit and a tutorial is available on the http://www.fpdf.org website)
and then modify phpMyAdmin's libraries/schema/ Pdf_Relation_Schema.
class.php source code.
Laying out a schema with the Designer
feature
The Designer feature (available in the Database view) offers a more refined way
of moving the tables on screen, as the column links follow the table movements.
Therefore, an interface exists between the tables' coordinates, as saved by the
Designer , and the coordinates for the schema. Let us enter the Designer and click on
the small PDF logo.
This brings us to a panel where we can choose the (existing) schema name and
the action we want to perform—in our case, to export the Designer coordinates to
the schema definition. We could also use the New page name dialog, entering a
page name, and then clicking on Go to create an empty page. From here, we can
subsequently export the coordinates saved from the Designer workspace:
There is a difference in the span of tables managed by the Designer
and by the Edit or export relational schema feature. The Designer
manipulates, by default, every table of a database, whereas the Edit or
export relational schema panel offers us a choice of tables, enabling us
to represent a subset of the relations if there are many tables.