I think that the latest iText version already does the style emulation
in Graphics2D.
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Peter van Raamsdonk
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 3:08 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] one font containing all styles
> emulate bold,italic or bolditalic
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the "Microsoft Sans Serif" true type font in my
> code and I want to emulate bold or italic. I use Graphics2D
> to paint my text and I don't use chunk.
>
> I found this message in the forum what exactly describes the
> problem but the solution is unclear to me.
>
> http://threebit.net/mail-archive/itext-questions/msg04147.html
>
> I create the awt font from file and use the name to register
> it to pdf.
>
> For the pdf font mapping pseudo code;
>
> String formName = "somelocation/fonts/MICROSS.TTF";
>
>
> PdfTemplate template =
> contentByte.createTemplate(rect.width(), rect.height());
> DefaultFontMapper mapper = new DefaultFontMapper();
>
>
>
>
>
> FontFactory.register(fontName);
>
>
>
> BaseFont pdfFont = BaseFont.createFont(fontName,
> BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
>
> Object allNames[] = {pdfFont.getPostscriptFontName(),
> pdfFont.getFamilyFontName(), pdfFont.getFullFontName()};
>
> mapper.insertNames(allNames, fontName);
>
>
>
> Graphics2D g2d = template.createGraphics(rect.width(),
> rect.height(), mapper);
>
>
> When I watch the Set of FontFactory.getRegisteredFamilies() I
> see the styles missing compared to Arial.
>
> arial=[Arial, Arial Bold, Arial Italic, Arial Bold Italic]
>
> microsoft sans serif=[Microsoft Sans Serif]
>
> How can I set these styles using FontFactory to emulate bold
> or italic?
>
> Hopefully this is possible,
>
> :Peter
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