Creating PDF files with OTF fonts

[Corinna Kinchin <co...@gmail.com>]

Good afternoon all!

I have a newbie question which I'm hoping for some help with:

I've just (last week) downloaded the latest PDFbox source from github and
am trying to create a HelloWorldOTF.java, based on the HelloWorldTTF.java
example, with the hope of creating a PDF file which uses an OTF font (in
this case, Adobe Caslon Pro Regular) to add text to the output PDF.

Here's what I have so far:

            doc = new PDDocument();

            PDPage page = new PDPage();
            doc.addPage(page);

            String testOtfFontFile =
"c:/windows/fonts/ACaslonPro-Regular.otf";
            String testTtfFontFile = "c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf";
            String testPdfFile = "c:/tmp/pdfboxtest.pdf";

            CFFFont font = loadCFFFont(testOtfFontFile);

            PDFont ttfFont = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(doc, new
File(testTtfFontFile));

            PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc,
                    page);
            contentStream.beginText();
            // How to set the CFFFont?
            contentStream.setFont(ttfFont, 12);
            contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 700);
            contentStream.drawString(text);
            contentStream.endText();
            contentStream.close();
            doc.save(testPdfFile);
            System.out.println(testPdfFile + " created!");

I can load a CFFFont using this code: (loadCFFFont()):

                CFFFont cff = null;
                input = new FileInputStream(file);
                byte[] bytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(input);
                CFFParser cffParser = new CFFParser();
                cff = cffParser.parse(bytes).get(0);

... but can't for the life of me figure out how to get from a CFFFont to a
PDFont in order to be able to use it to set the font via setFont().

Any help or pointers would be hugely appreciated ...

Thank you!

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... Corinna

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