org.faceless.pdf2
Class OpenTypeFont

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.faceless.pdf2.PDFFont
      extended by org.faceless.pdf2.OpenTypeFont
All Implemented Interfaces:
Cloneable

public final class OpenTypeFont
extends PDFFont

A subclass of PDFFont that represents an OpenType font. OpenType fonts are a superset of TrueType fonts, but also include fonts where the glyphs are defined using Adobes "Compact Font" format (which are supported since version 2.3 of the library).

OpenType fonts can be stored by reference only (the font is not embedded into the file), or can be embedded using either one or two bytes per glyph. One byte is only really suitable when the font is using a subset of the ASCII character set - eg. western european characters only. If the font is going to be used to display non-roman characters, two bytes should be used.

Since:
2.0 (prior to 2.0 this class was called TrueTypeFont)


Constructor Summary
OpenTypeFont(InputStream in, int bytesperglyph)
          Create a new OpenTypeFont from the specified InputStream.
OpenTypeFont(OpenTypeFont font)
          Create a new OpenTypeFont that is a copy of the specified OpenTypeFont.
 
Method Summary
 float getAscender()
          Get the Ascender for the font (the maximum height above the baseline the font extends), as a proportion of the point size.
 String[] getAvailableFeatures()
          Return the list of available features for this font.
 float getDefaultLeading()
           Get the default leading for this font - the preferred distance between two successive baselines of text.
 float getDescender()
          Get the Descender for the font (the maximum height below the baseline the font extends), as a proportion of the point size.
 String getEmbeddingRestrictions()
          Returns null if the font can be embedded without any restrictions, or a non-null String if the font has embedding restrictions.
 boolean getFeature(String feature)
          Returns whether the specified feature is currently set
 float getStrikeoutPosition()
          Get the strikeout position, as a proportion of the font size.
 float getStrikeoutThickness()
          Get the strikeout thickness, as a proportion of the font size.
 float getSubscriptPosition()
           Get the recommended position of a sub-script version of this font, as a proportion of the sub-scripted font size.
 float getSubscriptSize()
           Get the recommended size of a super/sub script version of this font, as a proportion of the normal font size.
 float getSuperscriptPosition()
           Get the recommended position of a super-script version of this font, as a proportion of the sub-scripted font size.
 float getUnderlinePosition()
          Get the underline position, as a proportion of the font size.
 float getUnderlineThickness()
          Get the underline thickness, as a proportion of the font size.
 float getXHeight()
          Get the X-Height of the font - normally the height of a lower-case 'x' character
 boolean isMonospace()
          Return true if every character has the same width (like Courier), false if every character is potentially a different width (like Times-Roman)
 void setEmbed(boolean embed)
          Whether to embed the font in the PDF.
 void setFeature(String feature, boolean on)
           Set or clear an optional feature on a font.
 void setSubset(boolean subset)
          Whether to "subset" the font by removing unused glyph definitions from the font when it's embedded in the file.
 String toString()
           
 
Methods inherited from class org.faceless.pdf2.PDFFont
getBaseName, getBottom, getCharWidth, getCharWidth, getKerning, getKerning, getLeft, getRight, getTop, isDefined, isDefined, isHorizontal, ligaturize, ligaturize, requote, requote, versionBold, versionItalic, versionNonBold, versionNonItalic, versionRegular
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

OpenTypeFont

public OpenTypeFont(OpenTypeFont font)
Create a new OpenTypeFont that is a copy of the specified OpenTypeFont. If a new copy of the font is required, this method is much faster than reloading the font from disk.

Parameters:
font - the OpenTypeFont to copy.
Since:
2.11.10

OpenTypeFont

public OpenTypeFont(InputStream in,
                    int bytesperglyph)
             throws IOException
Create a new OpenTypeFont from the specified InputStream. The InputStream is closed after use.

Parameters:
in - the InputStream to read the font from.
bytesperglyph - the number of bytes to use for each glyph. Must be 1 or 2. Thanks to compression there is surprisingly little difference in terms of size in the resulting file, so if in doubt, use 2.
Throws:
IOException
Since:
2.0
Method Detail

setSubset

public void setSubset(boolean subset)
Whether to "subset" the font by removing unused glyph definitions from the font when it's embedded in the file. This is generally a good thing, unless the font will be used to display text that's not known at PDF creation time (i.e. it's used in a form).

Parameters:
subset - whether to subset the font (the default is true)

setEmbed

public void setEmbed(boolean embed)
Whether to embed the font in the PDF. Embedding the Font will result in larger files, but the PDF will be readable anywhere - choosing not to embed the font will mean a matching font is required on the system viewing the PDF. If that font is missing, the document cannot guarantee to be displayed correctly. 2-byte fonts are always embedded.

Parameters:
embed - whether to embed the font (the default is true)

getEmbeddingRestrictions

public String getEmbeddingRestrictions()
Returns null if the font can be embedded without any restrictions, or a non-null String if the font has embedding restrictions. Note the library will not prevent you from using a font with embedding restrictions unless you have set the OutputProfile.Feature.FontEmbeddingRestrictions feature - it's your responsibility to ensure you have the right to embed the font. The content of the String is undefined but is intended to detail the restriction type.

Since:
2.7.8

getDefaultLeading

public float getDefaultLeading()
Description copied from class: PDFFont

Get the default leading for this font - the preferred distance between two successive baselines of text. Values are a ratio of the font size, and are typically between 1 and 1.3

Note that the values of the different spacing-between-lines methods have changed - in versions 1.0.4 and earlier this routine normally returned 1 and the spacing was set by the PDFStyle.setTextLineSpacing(float) method. Since 1.1, the values for these two methods are effectively reversed. See the relevant method comments in the PDFStyle class for more information.

Specified by:
getDefaultLeading in class PDFFont

getDescender

public float getDescender()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the Descender for the font (the maximum height below the baseline the font extends), as a proportion of the point size. The returned value is usually negative.

Specified by:
getDescender in class PDFFont

getAscender

public float getAscender()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the Ascender for the font (the maximum height above the baseline the font extends), as a proportion of the point size.

Specified by:
getAscender in class PDFFont

getUnderlinePosition

public float getUnderlinePosition()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the underline position, as a proportion of the font size. Like the getDescender() method, the returned value is almost always negative, indicating below the baseline.

Specified by:
getUnderlinePosition in class PDFFont

getUnderlineThickness

public float getUnderlineThickness()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the underline thickness, as a proportion of the font size.

Specified by:
getUnderlineThickness in class PDFFont

getStrikeoutPosition

public float getStrikeoutPosition()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the strikeout position, as a proportion of the font size.

Specified by:
getStrikeoutPosition in class PDFFont

getStrikeoutThickness

public float getStrikeoutThickness()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the strikeout thickness, as a proportion of the font size.

Specified by:
getStrikeoutThickness in class PDFFont

getSuperscriptPosition

public float getSuperscriptPosition()
Description copied from class: PDFFont

Get the recommended position of a super-script version of this font, as a proportion of the sub-scripted font size. Value is always positive.

For some fonts (like CJK or barcode fonts) where there is no concept of super or subscript, this value is entirely arbitrary.

Specified by:
getSuperscriptPosition in class PDFFont

getSubscriptPosition

public float getSubscriptPosition()
Description copied from class: PDFFont

Get the recommended position of a sub-script version of this font, as a proportion of the sub-scripted font size. Value is almost always zero or negative.

For some fonts (like CJK or barcode fonts) where there is no concept of super or subscript, this value is entirely arbitrary.

Specified by:
getSubscriptPosition in class PDFFont

getSubscriptSize

public float getSubscriptSize()
Description copied from class: PDFFont

Get the recommended size of a super/sub script version of this font, as a proportion of the normal font size. Typical value is around 0.6.

For some fonts (like CJK or barcode fonts) where there is no concept of super or subscript, this value is entirely arbitrary.

Specified by:
getSubscriptSize in class PDFFont

getXHeight

public float getXHeight()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the X-Height of the font - normally the height of a lower-case 'x' character

Specified by:
getXHeight in class PDFFont

isMonospace

public boolean isMonospace()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Return true if every character has the same width (like Courier), false if every character is potentially a different width (like Times-Roman)

Specified by:
isMonospace in class PDFFont

setFeature

public void setFeature(String feature,
                       boolean on)

Set or clear an optional feature on a font. Some OpenType fonts have GPOS and GSUB tables which can be used to modify the glyphs that are displayed. This is required to display some languages correctly.

To enable this type of glyph shaping, the font must be created using a 2-byte encoding and the "opentype" feature must first be set. This will cause the default set of OpenType features to be used for layout. The full list of features available in the font can be seen by calling the getAvailableFeatures() method (go here for their explanations), and individual features may then be turned on or off as required. Features that are required for correct layout (the case for Indic and Arabic scripts) will be selected by default when the "opentype" feature is set.

By default, OpenType layout is not used, as it is considerably slower. When it is used the PDFFont.ligaturize(char[], int, int, java.util.Locale) method becomes a no-op, as ligatures will be applied using these tables. The langauge of the Locale can affect which operations are run, so this should be used with care.

Lastly the "correctleading" feature can be set to use the correct calculation for getDefaultLeading() rather than the one originally used in the PDF Library. For many fonts the two calculations will give similar, often identical results, but for some fonts it won't so we can't change this calculation by default without forcing a re-layout of many existing documents. However we recommend setting this feature for all new documents. The initial value of this feature can be set to true by setting the OpenTypeCorrectLeading property

Overrides:
setFeature in class PDFFont
Parameters:
feature - the feature name
on - whether to set or clear the feature
Since:
2.11.22

getFeature

public boolean getFeature(String feature)
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Returns whether the specified feature is currently set

Overrides:
getFeature in class PDFFont
Parameters:
feature - the feature name

getAvailableFeatures

public String[] getAvailableFeatures()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Return the list of available features for this font.

Overrides:
getAvailableFeatures in class PDFFont
Returns:
a list of feature names that can be passed to PDFFont.setFeature(java.lang.String, boolean)
See Also:
PDFFont.setFeature(java.lang.String, boolean)

toString

public String toString()


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