well - let's assume you have a text in HTML with some styling in CSS. From
there you would know the font description, size ….
Now in order to represent that in PDF you need to draw a string with the
correct font. This can either be done using one of the build in fonts or using
an external font e.g. TrueType font.
Quick sample
01 doc = new PDDocument();
02 PDPage page = new PDPage();
03 doc.addPage(page);
04 PDFont font = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(doc, "Arial.ttf");
05 PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc,page);
06 contentStream.beginText();
07 contentStream.setFont(font, 12);
08 contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 700);
09 contentStream.drawString("my sample text");
10 contentStream.endText();
11 contentStream.close();
12 doc.save(file);
Where the properties such as font name (line 04), font size (line 07), text
position (line 08), text (line 09) … are based on you HTML/CSS
Of course there are also alternative ways to generate PDF from HTML/CSS. My
assumption here is that you have to do it directly yourself :-)
Maruan Sahyoun
Am 21.02.2013 um 13:24 schrieb Christian Wulf <[email protected]>:
> Not directly. So, how could I use it in my situation?
>
> Am 21.02.2013 13:21, schrieb Maruan Sahyoun:
>> you could use PDTrueTypeFont
>> http://pdfbox.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/font/PDTrueTypeFont.html.
>> PDFont is 'only' a base class.
>>
>> Maruan Sahyoun
>>
>> Am 21.02.2013 um 13:09 schrieb Christian Wulf <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Hello again,
>>>
>>> I currently develop a transformation from an HTML/CSS DOM to PDF. It
>>> reads the css information of each element and transforms it to a visual
>>> object within a PDF page. For this purpose, I need to create a PDFont
>>> instance with the information of a java.awt.Font instance that I get
>>> from the DOM.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Christian
>>>
>>> Am 21.02.2013 13:02, schrieb Maruan Sahyoun:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> could you explain a little bit what you are trying to achieve? Normally in
>>>> PDFBox it's the other way around awt.Font instances are created from
>>>> PDFont e.g. for rendering purposes.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>>
>>>> Maruan Sahyoun
>>>>
>>>> Am 21.02.2013 um 11:06 schrieb Christian Wulf
>>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello community,
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to get the PDFont instance that corresponds to a given
>>>>> java.awt.Font instance including fontName, fontFamiliy, bold, italic
>>>>> etc. Unfortunately, I could not find any way how to acceive this goal
>>>>> with pdfbox. I have tried the following but stopped at the Dictionary
>>>>> parameter because I do not know such construct:
>>>>>
>>>>> def fac= new PDFontFactory()
>>>>>
>>>>> fac.createFont(dic)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you help with this "transformation"?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Christian
>>>>>
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>>> --
>>> M.Sc. Christian Wulf
>>> Research Assistant
>>>
>>> Software Engineering Group
>>> Dept. Computer Science
>>> Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4
>>> University of Kiel
>>> 24118 Kiel, Germany
>>>
>>> Room: 1213
>>> Phone: +49 431 880 2776
>>> Fax: +49 431 880 7617
>>> Email: [email protected]
>>> WWW: http://se.informatik.uni-kiel.de/
>>>
>>
>
> --
> M.Sc. Christian Wulf
> Research Assistant
>
> Software Engineering Group
> Dept. Computer Science
> Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4
> University of Kiel
> 24118 Kiel, Germany
>
> Room: 1213
> Phone: +49 431 880 2776
> Fax: +49 431 880 7617
> Email: [email protected]
> WWW: http://se.informatik.uni-kiel.de/
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