/* * 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); } } }