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Class FontDetails

class FontDetails extends Object

Each font in the document will have an instance of this class where the characters used will be represented.

Author: Paulo Soares (psoares@consiste.pt)

Field Summary
BaseFont	baseFont The font
CJKFont	cjkFont
IntHashtable	cjkTag
PdfName	fontName The font name that appears in the document body stream
int	fontType The font type
PdfIndirectReference	indirectReference The indirect reference to this font
HashMap	longTag The map used with double byte encodings.
byte[]	shortTag The array used with single byte encodings
protected boolean	subset Indicates if all the glyphs and widths for that particular encoding should be included in the document.
boolean	symbolic `true` if the font is symbolic
TrueTypeFontUnicode	ttu The font if its an instance of `TrueTypeFontUnicode`

Constructor Summary
	FontDetails(PdfName fontName, PdfIndirectReference indirectReference, BaseFont baseFont) Each font used in a document has an instance of this class.

Method Summary
byte[]	convertToBytes(String text) Converts the text into bytes to be placed in the document.
BaseFont	getBaseFont() Gets the `BaseFont` of this font.
PdfName	getFontName() Gets the font name as it appears in the document body.
PdfIndirectReference	getIndirectReference() Gets the indirect reference to this font.
boolean	isSubset() Indicates if all the glyphs and widths for that particular encoding should be included in the document.
void	setSubset(boolean subset) Indicates if all the glyphs and widths for that particular encoding should be included in the document.
void	writeFont(PdfWriter writer) Writes the font definition to the document.

Field Detail

baseFont

BaseFont baseFont

The font

cjkFont

CJKFont cjkFont

cjkTag

IntHashtable cjkTag

fontName

PdfName fontName

The font name that appears in the document body stream

fontType

int fontType

The font type

indirectReference

PdfIndirectReference indirectReference

The indirect reference to this font

longTag

HashMap longTag

The map used with double byte encodings. The key is Integer(glyph) and the value is int[]{glyph, width, Unicode code}

shortTag

byte[] shortTag

The array used with single byte encodings

subset

protected boolean subset

Indicates if all the glyphs and widths for that particular encoding should be included in the document.

symbolic

boolean symbolic

true if the font is symbolic

ttu

TrueTypeFontUnicode ttu

The font if its an instance of TrueTypeFontUnicode

Constructor Detail

FontDetails

FontDetails(PdfName fontName, PdfIndirectReference indirectReference, BaseFont baseFont)

Each font used in a document has an instance of this class. This class stores the characters used in the document and other specifics unique to the current working document.

Parameters: fontName the font name indirectReference the indirect reference to the font baseFont the BaseFont

Method Detail

convertToBytes

byte[] convertToBytes(String text)

Converts the text into bytes to be placed in the document. The conversion is done according to the font and the encoding and the characters used are stored.

Parameters: text the text to convert

Returns: the conversion