/*
* Simulated font styles:
* Create simulated italic or bold text output
*
* Output text lines and Textflows with simulated obliqued or bold font, which
* is useful if a real italic or bold variant of the font is not available.
*
* Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9
* Required data: font
*/
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.fonts;
import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;
public class simulated_fontstyles
{
public static void main (String argv[])
{
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
String searchpath = "../input";
String outfile = "simulated_fontstyles.pdf";
String title = "Simulated Font Styles";
pdflib p = null;
int font, tf = -1;
String result, optlist;
int exitcode = 0;
String textline = "Our Paper Planes";
String textflow =
"Our paper planes are the ideal way of passing the time. We offer " +
"revolutionary new developments of the traditional common paper " +
"planes. If your lesson, conference, or lecture turn out to be " +
"deadly boring, you can have a wonderful time with our planes.";
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");
/* Set an output path according to the name of the topic */
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=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Load the font */
font = p.load_font("NotoSerif-Regular", "unicode", "");
if (font == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* Place a text line with a simulated italic angle of -12. The
* characters will be slanted by 12 degrees to the right.
*/
optlist = "font=" + font + " fontsize=20 " + "italicangle=-12";
p.fit_textline(textline + " (italicangle=-12)", 100, 750, optlist);
/* Place a text line with a simulated bold font style */
optlist = "font=" + font + " fontsize=20 " + "fakebold=true";
p.fit_textline(textline + " (fakebold=true)", 100, 650, optlist);
/* Place a Textflow with a simulated italic angle of -12. The
* characters will be slanted by 12 degrees to the right.
*/
optlist = "font=" + font + " fontsize=20 italicangle=-12";
tf = p.add_textflow(-1, "(italicangle=-12)\n" + textflow, optlist);
if (tf == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
result = p.fit_textflow(tf, 100, 350, 450, 550, "");
if (!result.equals("_stop"))
{
/* Check for errors or more text to be placed */
}
p.delete_textflow(tf);
/* Place a Textflow with a simulated bold font style */
optlist = "font=" + font + " fontsize=20 fakebold=true";
tf = p.add_textflow(-1, "(fakebold=true)\n" + textflow, optlist);
if (tf == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
result = p.fit_textflow(tf, 100, 100, 450, 300, "");
if (!result.equals("_stop"))
{
/* Check for errors or more text to be placed */
}
p.delete_textflow(tf);
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);
}
}
}