----- Original Message -----
From: "Olivier Lefevre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Helvetica vs. Arial
> Paulo Soares wrote:
>> Did you registered the font?
>
> Yes. Let's take an example. If I do:
>
> String fontsDir = "c:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts";
> FontFactory.getFontImp().registerDirectory(fontsDir);
> DefaultFontMapper fm = new DefaultFontMapper();
> fm.insertDirectory(fontsDir);
> BaseFont f1 = FontFactory.getFont("Arial", 12,
> com.lowagie.text.Font.BOLD).getBaseFont();
> BaseFont f2 = fm.awtToPdf(new java.awt.Font("Arial", java.awt.Font.BOLD,
> 12);
> System.out.println(f1.equals(f2));
>
> (I assume the iText Graphics2D object will call awt2Pdf under the cover)
> I can clearly see that they are not the same font. The book is vague
> on this IMO: the font chapters were not written with Java2D in mind
> and it's not clear how to get the font you want when using iText
> through Java2D.
The font chapters were written with PDF in mind, not with AWT in mind. In
any case your code works for me. Just call:
System.out.println(f1.getPostscriptFontName() + "," +
f2.getPostscriptFontName());
to see that the fonts are the same.
Paulo
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