com.lowagie.text.pdf
Class PdfFont

java.lang.Object
  com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfFont

All Implemented Interfaces:

Comparable

 class PdfFont
extends Object
implements Comparable

PdfFont is the Pdf Font object.

Limitation: in this class only base 14 Type 1 fonts (courier, courier bold, courier oblique, courier boldoblique, helvetica, helvetica bold, helvetica oblique, helvetica boldoblique, symbol, times roman, times bold, times italic, times bolditalic, zapfdingbats) and their standard encoding (standard, MacRoman, (MacExpert,) WinAnsi) are supported.
This object is described in the 'Portable Document Format Reference Manual version 1.3' section 7.7 (page 198-203).

See Also:

PdfName, PdfDictionary, BadPdfFormatException

Field Summary

private BaseFont	font the font metrics.
protected float	hScale
protected Image	image an image.
private float	size the size.

Constructor Summary

PdfFont(BaseFont bf, float size)

Method Summary

int	compareTo(Object object) Compares this PdfFont with another
(package private) static PdfFont	getDefaultFont()
(package private) BaseFont	getFont()
(package private) void	setHorizontalScaling(float hScale)
(package private) void	setImage(Image image)
(package private) float	size() Returns the size of this font.
(package private) float	width() Returns the approximative width of 1 character of this font.
(package private) float	width(int character) Returns the width of a certain character of this font.
(package private) float	width(String s)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

font

private BaseFont font

the font metrics.

size

private float size

the size.

image

protected Image image

an image.

hScale

protected float hScale

Constructor Detail

PdfFont

PdfFont(BaseFont bf,
        float size)

Method Detail

compareTo

public int compareTo(Object object)

Compares this PdfFont with another

Specified by:

compareTo in interface Comparable

Parameters:

object - the other PdfFont

Returns:

a value

size

float size()

Returns the size of this font.

Returns:

a size

width

float width()

Returns the approximative width of 1 character of this font.

Returns:

a width in Text Space

width

float width(int character)

Returns the width of a certain character of this font.

Parameters:

character - a certain character

Returns:

a width in Text Space

width

float width(String s)

getFont

BaseFont getFont()

setImage

void setImage(Image image)

getDefaultFont

static PdfFont getDefaultFont()

setHorizontalScaling

void setHorizontalScaling(float hScale)