Interface PDFontLike

All Known Implementing Classes:
PDCIDFont, PDCIDFontType0, PDCIDFontType2, PDFont, PDMMType1Font, PDSimpleFont, PDTrueTypeFont, PDType0Font, PDType1CFont, PDType1Font, PDType3Font

public interface PDFontLike
A font-like object.
Author:
John Hewson
  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    float
    This will get the average font width for all characters.
    org.apache.fontbox.util.BoundingBox
    Returns the font's bounding box.
    Returns the font descriptor, may be null.
    Returns the font matrix, which represents the transformation from glyph space to text space.
    float
    getHeight(int code)
    Deprecated.
    Use getBoundingBox().getHeight() instead.
    Returns the name of this font, either the PostScript "BaseName" or the Type 3 "Name".
    Returns the position vector (v), in text space, for the given character.
    float
    getWidth(int code)
    Returns the advance width of the given character, in glyph space.
    float
    getWidthFromFont(int code)
    Returns the width of a glyph in the embedded font file.
    boolean
    hasExplicitWidth(int code)
    Returns true if the Font dictionary specifies an explicit width for the given glyph.
    boolean
    Returns true if the embedded font file is damaged.
    boolean
    Returns true if the font file is embedded in the PDF.
  • Method Details

    • getName

      String getName()
      Returns the name of this font, either the PostScript "BaseName" or the Type 3 "Name".
    • getFontDescriptor

      PDFontDescriptor getFontDescriptor()
      Returns the font descriptor, may be null.
    • getFontMatrix

      Matrix getFontMatrix()
      Returns the font matrix, which represents the transformation from glyph space to text space.
    • getBoundingBox

      org.apache.fontbox.util.BoundingBox getBoundingBox() throws IOException
      Returns the font's bounding box.
      Throws:
      IOException
    • getPositionVector

      Vector getPositionVector(int code)
      Returns the position vector (v), in text space, for the given character. This represents the position of vertical origin relative to horizontal origin, for horizontal writing it will always be (0, 0). For vertical writing both x and y are set.
      Parameters:
      code - character code
      Returns:
      position vector
    • getHeight

      @Deprecated float getHeight(int code) throws IOException
      Deprecated.
      Use getBoundingBox().getHeight() instead.
      Returns the height of the given character, in glyph space. This can be expensive to calculate. Results are only approximate.

      Warning: This method is deprecated in PDFBox 2.0 because there is no meaningful value which it can return. The getWidth(int) method returns the advance width of a glyph, but there is no corresponding advance height. The logical height of a character is the same for every character in a font, so if you want that, retrieve the font bbox's height. Otherwise if you want the visual bounds of the glyph then call getPath(..) on the appropriate PDFont subclass to retrieve the glyph outline as a GeneralPath. See the cyan rectangles in the DrawPrintTextLocations.java example to see this in action.

      Parameters:
      code - character code
      Throws:
      IOException
    • getWidth

      float getWidth(int code) throws IOException
      Returns the advance width of the given character, in glyph space.

      If you want the visual bounds of the glyph then call getPath(..) on the appropriate PDFont subclass to retrieve the glyph outline as a GeneralPath instead. See the cyan rectangles in the DrawPrintTextLocations.java example to see this in action.

      Parameters:
      code - character code
      Throws:
      IOException
    • hasExplicitWidth

      boolean hasExplicitWidth(int code) throws IOException
      Returns true if the Font dictionary specifies an explicit width for the given glyph. This includes Width, W but not default widths entries.
      Parameters:
      code - character code
      Throws:
      IOException - if the font could not be read
    • getWidthFromFont

      float getWidthFromFont(int code) throws IOException
      Returns the width of a glyph in the embedded font file.
      Parameters:
      code - character code
      Returns:
      width in glyph space
      Throws:
      IOException - if the font could not be read
    • isEmbedded

      boolean isEmbedded()
      Returns true if the font file is embedded in the PDF.
    • isDamaged

      boolean isDamaged()
      Returns true if the embedded font file is damaged.
    • getAverageFontWidth

      float getAverageFontWidth()
      This will get the average font width for all characters.
      Returns:
      The width is in 1000 unit of text space, ie 333 or 777