> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Rueggeberg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 14:38
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [iText-questions] Using ttf-fonts in *.war files
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use a ttf-font that is included into a war-file.
> Unfortunately all methods of the itext-library expect a file name to the
> ttf-font on a real file system.
>
That's not true, you can also provide the font in a byte array.
> Is there a known way to read fonts that are included into a war-file?
>
Of course there is. Put the font some place that java can get. Let's
suppose that the font is arial.ttf and is in the package mypackage.fonts.
1 - create this method somewhere (the method is similar to the one
in BaseFont but it's NOT the same).
public static InputStream getResourceStream(String key) {
InputStream is = null;
// Try to use Context Class Loader to load the properties
file.
try {
java.lang.reflect.Method getCCL =
Thread.class.getMethod("getContextClassLoader", new
Class[0]);
if (getCCL != null) {
ClassLoader contextClassLoader =
(ClassLoader)getCCL.invoke(Thread.currentThread(),
new Object[0]);
is = contextClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(key);
}
} catch (Exception e) {}
if (is == null) {
is = BaseFont.class.getResourceAsStream(key);
}
return is;
}
2 - read the font.
InputStream is = getResourceStream("/mypackage/fonts/arial.ttf");
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte buf[] = new byte[1024];
while (true) {
int size = is.read(buf);
if (size < 0)
break;
out.write(buf, 0, size);
}
is.close();
buf = out.toByteArray();
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont("arial.ttf", BaseFont.CP_1252,
true, true, buf, null);
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
>
> Thanks,
> Matthias
>
>
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