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Posted to users@pdfbox.apache.org by "Hesham G." <he...@gmail.com> on 2012/05/22 15:45:37 UTC
Using a system font file with loadTTF method
Hello ,
This is a more Java question rather than a PDFBox question : ) , but I can't find an answer to it.
I am trying to use a system font file in drawing text to a PDF file using PDFBox, through the method :
PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF( PDDocuent pdfFile, File fontFile );
The problem here is that the loadTTF(...) method accepts a (File) object, while I can only get the System font as a (Font) object using this code :
GraphicsEnvironment e = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
Font[] fonts = e.getAllFonts();
Where I get one of the (fonts) objects to use it. Is there a way to convert the Font object to File object ?
I am using Mac OS X.
Best regards ,
Hesham
Re: Using a system font file with loadTTF method
Posted by "Hesham G." <he...@gmail.com>.
Andreas ,
Thanks for your reply
>> These are all AWT-Fonts which can't be embedded to a pdf directly. They have to be converted somehow. I guess there isn't any code to do that, but please prove me wrong if you find something appropriate. ;-)
Actually there is, but for Windows operating system only :
File fontFile = new File( FontManager.getFontPath( true ) + "/" + "verdana.TTF" );
PDSimpleFont pdfFont = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF( pdfFile, fontFile );
The problem is that the FontManager does not work for Mac OS X.
Any idea Andreas how to do that ?
Best regards ,
Hesham
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Included message :
> Hi,
>
> Am 22.05.2012 15:45, schrieb Hesham G.:
>> Hello ,
>>
>> This is a more Java question rather than a PDFBox question : ) , but I can't find an answer to it.
>>
>> I am trying to use a system font file in drawing text to a PDF file using PDFBox, through the method :
>> PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF( PDDocuent pdfFile, File fontFile );
>>
>> The problem here is that the loadTTF(...) method accepts a (File) object, while I can only get the System font as a (Font) object using this code :
>> GraphicsEnvironment e = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
>> Font[] fonts = e.getAllFonts();
> These are all AWT-Fonts which can't be embedded to a pdf directly. They have to
> be converted somehow. I guess there isn't any code to do that, but please prove
> me wrong if you find something appropriate. ;-)
>
>> Where I get one of the (fonts) objects to use it. Is there a way to convert the Font object to File object ?
>> I am using Mac OS X.
> All those awt-fonts should be related to a "real" font somewhere in the
> filesystem. Maybe you are able to find them using the name from the AWT-Font?
> Probably those have a suitable format which can be used within a pdf.
>
>> Best regards ,
>> Hesham
>
>
> BR
> Andreas Lehmkühler
>
Re: Using a system font file with loadTTF method
Posted by Andreas Lehmkuehler <an...@lehmi.de>.
Hi,
Am 22.05.2012 15:45, schrieb Hesham G.:
> Hello ,
>
> This is a more Java question rather than a PDFBox question : ) , but I can't find an answer to it.
>
> I am trying to use a system font file in drawing text to a PDF file using PDFBox, through the method :
> PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF( PDDocuent pdfFile, File fontFile );
>
> The problem here is that the loadTTF(...) method accepts a (File) object, while I can only get the System font as a (Font) object using this code :
> GraphicsEnvironment e = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
> Font[] fonts = e.getAllFonts();
These are all AWT-Fonts which can't be embedded to a pdf directly. They have to
be converted somehow. I guess there isn't any code to do that, but please prove
me wrong if you find something appropriate. ;-)
> Where I get one of the (fonts) objects to use it. Is there a way to convert the Font object to File object ?
> I am using Mac OS X.
All those awt-fonts should be related to a "real" font somewhere in the
filesystem. Maybe you are able to find them using the name from the AWT-Font?
Probably those have a suitable format which can be used within a pdf.
> Best regards ,
> Hesham
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler