Thank you. It is at least good to know I wasn't missing something trivial as it is indeed a tricky issue. The code in DrawPrintTextLocations seems very helpful.
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah it's tricky. See also the source code of DrawPrintTextLocations which > was written based on showFontGlyph(). > > I can't tell whether your code is correct because it's all so complex. The > best is to 1) copy some code that works 2) test with many files. > > Tilman > > > Am 19.11.2017 um 17:01 schrieb Itai: > >> Hello, >> I am trying to render PDFs in JavaFX using PDFBox, mostly as an exercise >> for myself. >> I am extending PDFGraphicsStreamEngine, and I have come across a >> predicament in the method showFontGlyph(Matrix textRenderingMatrix, PDFont >> font, int code, String unicode, Vector displacement), namely - how do I >> get >> a GeneralPath for the glyph in question. >> It seems each PDFont class has a slightly different way for achieving >> this, >> and I couldn't find any succinct summary of all the methods. So far I have >> come up with this bit of code: >> >> >> GeneralPath gp; >> if (font instanceof PDVectorFont) { >> PDVectorFont vFont = (PDVectorFont) font; >> gp = vFont.getPath(code); >> } else if (font instanceof PDSimpleFont) { >> if (font instanceof PDType1Font) { >> PDType1Font t1Font = (PDType1Font) font; >> gp = t1Font.getType1Font().getPath( >> t1Font.codeToName(code)); >> } else if (font instanceof PDType1CFont) { >> PDType1CFont t1cFont = (PDType1CFont) font; >> gp = t1cFont.getPath(t1cFont.codeToName(code)); >> } else { >> // Presumably this should only be PDType3Font, as >> PDTrueTypeFont is also a PDVectorFont >> PDSimpleFont sFont = ((PDSimpleFont) font); >> gp = sFont.getPath(unicode); >> } >> } else { >> // Should never happen? >> throw new RuntimeException("Unknown font type"); >> } >> >> My question is - did I cover all possibilities? Am I doing this correctly? >> Or is there some built-in method for achieving the same purpose, which is >> agnostic to the type of PDFont given? >> >> Thanks, >> Itai. >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
