/* * Font metrics info: * Get various font related metrics such as the ascender or descender * * Use the info_font() function to get the metrics values for the capheight, * ascender, descender, or xheight of the font. Visualize these metrics * using the "matchbox" feature. * * Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9 * Required data: font file */ package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.fonts; import com.pdflib.pdflib; import com.pdflib.PDFlibException; import java.util.Locale; public class font_metrics_info { public static void main (String argv[]) { /* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */ String searchpath = "../input"; String outfile = "font_metrics_info.pdf"; String title = "Font Metrics Info"; pdflib p = null; int font; double capheight, ascender, descender, xheight; String optlist, text = "ABCdefghij"; int x=150, y=140; int exitcode = 0; Locale.setDefault(Locale.US); try { p = new pdflib(); p.set_option("searchpath={" + searchpath + "}"); /* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */ p.set_option("errorpolicy=return"); if (p.begin_document(outfile, "") == -1) throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg()); p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook"); p.set_info("Title", title); /* Start page */ p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=300 height=200"); font = p.load_font("NotoSerif-Regular", "unicode", "embedding"); if (font == -1) throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg()); /* Retrieve the font metrics for a font size of 10. If no fontsize * is supplied the metrics will be based on a font size of 1000. */ capheight = p.info_font(font, "capheight", "fontsize=10"); ascender = p.info_font(font, "ascender", "fontsize=10"); descender = p.info_font(font, "descender", "fontsize=10"); xheight = p.info_font(font, "xheight", "fontsize=10"); p.setfont(font, 10); /* Output each of the font metrics with appropriate formatting as well * as the sample text "ABCdefghij" with the metrics value colorized */ p.fit_textline("capheight for font size 10: " + String.format("%.2f",capheight), x, y, "alignchar :"); optlist = "matchbox={fillcolor={rgb 1 0.8 0.8} " + "boxheight={capheight none}}"; p.fit_textline(text, x+60, y, optlist); p.fit_textline("ascender for font size 10: " + String.format("%.2f", ascender), x, y-=30, "alignchar :"); optlist = "matchbox={fillcolor={rgb 1 0.8 0.8} " + "boxheight={ascender none}}"; p.fit_textline(text, x+60, y, optlist); p.fit_textline("descender for font size 10: " + String.format("%.2f", descender), x, y-=30, "alignchar :"); optlist = "matchbox={fillcolor={rgb 1 0.8 0.8} " + "boxheight={none descender}}"; p.fit_textline(text, x+60, y, optlist); p.fit_textline("xheight for font size 10: " + String.format("%.1f", xheight), x, y-=30, "alignchar :"); optlist = "matchbox={fillcolor={rgb 1 0.8 0.8} " + "boxheight={xheight none}}"; p.fit_textline(text, x+60, y, optlist); /* Finish page */ p.end_page_ext(""); p.end_document(""); } catch (PDFlibException e) { System.err.println("PDFlib exception occurred:"); System.err.println("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname() + ": " + e.get_errmsg()); exitcode = 1; } catch (Exception e) { System.err.println(e); exitcode = 1; } finally { if (p != null) { p.delete(); } System.exit(exitcode); } } }