Thanks for your information. However, I read the tutorials and examples
containing your piece of code. These ones do not help, because I want to
set the fontName, fontFamily, bold, italic etc. which I cannot
dynamically set with your approach. The fontDescriptor cannot be changed
after instantiating a concrete PDFont.
By the way: Where can I find the ttf files on my windows system or do I
have to download them from anywhere?
Thanks,
Christian
Am 21.02.2013 13:38, schrieb Maruan Sahyoun:
> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 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]
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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/
>>
>
--
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/
