org.faceless.pdf2
Class Type1Font

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.faceless.pdf2.PDFFont
      extended by org.faceless.pdf2.Type1Font
All Implemented Interfaces:
Cloneable

public final class Type1Font
extends PDFFont

Create a new PostScript Type 1 font. This class of font is commonly used on UNIX systems. The standard 14 fonts are a special class of Type 1 font.

Type 1 fonts give each character shape, or "glyph", a name, in the same way the PDF documents refer to glyphs by name (hardly surprising really, seeing as both Type 1 fonts and PDF documents are defined by Adobe). Because text written to the PDF via this library is specified in Unicode, Type 1 fonts need a "mapping" from Unicode character to Glyph name.

For many fonts this isn't a problem. Font's based on the latin character set (more specifically, fonts implementing a subset of the Adobe Standard Glyph List) already have their mapping defined. If the glyphs in the font have names taken from this list, no further thought needs to be given to this issue.

If not, it is necessary for the developer to supply a mapping between Unicode character and Glyph name. This is supplied as a Map where either the key is a String representing the name and the value is a Character, or the inverse (the key is a Character and the value a String). The former ordering is more useful for most Type 1 fonts, the latter was the only format accepted by this class prior to version 2.7.6.

Since:
1.0
See Also:
OpenTypeFont, StandardFont

Field Summary
static Map AGL
          This Map represents the Adobe Standard Glyph Lists.
 
Constructor Summary
Type1Font(InputStream afm, InputStream pfb)
          Create a new Type 1 font, using the standard Adobe mapping from unicode to glyph name.
Type1Font(InputStream afm, InputStream pfb, Map mapping)
           Create a new Type 1 font, using a user defined mapping from unicode to glyph name.
 
Method Summary
 float getAscender()
          Get the Ascender for the font (the maximum height above the baseline the font extends), as a proportion of the point size.
 float getDefaultLeading()
           Get the default leading for this font - the preferred distance between two successive baselines of text.
 float getDescender()
          Get the Descender for the font (the maximum height below the baseline the font extends), as a proportion of the point size.
 float getStrikeoutPosition()
          Get the strikeout position, as a proportion of the font size.
 float getStrikeoutThickness()
          Get the strikeout thickness, as a proportion of the font size.
 float getSubscriptPosition()
           Get the recommended position of a sub-script version of this font, as a proportion of the sub-scripted font size.
 float getSubscriptSize()
           Get the recommended size of a super/sub script version of this font, as a proportion of the normal font size.
 float getSuperscriptPosition()
           Get the recommended position of a super-script version of this font, as a proportion of the sub-scripted font size.
 float getUnderlinePosition()
          Get the underline position, as a proportion of the font size.
 float getUnderlineThickness()
          Get the underline thickness, as a proportion of the font size.
 float getXHeight()
          Get the X-Height of the font - normally the height of a lower-case 'x' character
 boolean isMonospace()
          Return true if every character has the same width (like Courier), false if every character is potentially a different width (like Times-Roman)
 String toString()
           
 
Methods inherited from class org.faceless.pdf2.PDFFont
getAvailableFeatures, getBaseName, getBottom, getCharWidth, getCharWidth, getFeature, getKerning, getKerning, getLeft, getRight, getTop, isDefined, isDefined, isHorizontal, ligaturize, ligaturize, requote, requote, setFeature, versionBold, versionItalic, versionNonBold, versionNonItalic, versionRegular
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Field Detail

AGL

public static final Map AGL
This Map represents the Adobe Standard Glyph Lists. Some fonts which claim to be encoded using the Adobe Standard Glyph mapping deviate from the list slightly. Using this Map you can easily create a slight variation on the standard mapping to pass into the Type 1 constructor. For example, lets say your font has a glyph called "hyphenminus" instead of the standard name "hyphen". You could create the font like so:
 Map mymap = new HashMap(Type1Font.AGL);
 mymap.put("hyphenminus", new Character('-'));
 PDFFont myfont = new Type1Font(afmfile, pfbfile, mymap);
 

Since:
2.1
Constructor Detail

Type1Font

public Type1Font(InputStream afm,
                 InputStream pfb)
          throws IOException
Create a new Type 1 font, using the standard Adobe mapping from unicode to glyph name.

Parameters:
afm - The .afm (Adobe Font Metrics) file specifying the metrics for this font
pfb - The .pfb or .pfa file containing the glyph shapes to be embedded in the PDF. If the font is not to be embedded, this should be null.
Throws:
IOException - If the .afm or .pfb InputStream can't be read or parsed

Type1Font

public Type1Font(InputStream afm,
                 InputStream pfb,
                 Map mapping)
          throws IOException

Create a new Type 1 font, using a user defined mapping from unicode to glyph name. The font can be embedded, which ensures that your viewers will see exactly the font you specified, at the cost of increasing the file size. If a font is not embedded and the viewer does not have the same font installed, the viewing software will substitute an "appropriate" font.

Parameters:
afm - The .afm (Adobe Font Metrics) file specifying the metrics for this font
pfb - The .pfb or .pfa file containing the glyph shapes to be embedded in the PDF. If the font is not to be embedded, this should be null.
mapping - The mapping between unicode and glyph name, as described inu the class header above. A value of null uses the Adobe Standard Glyph List
Throws:
IOException - If the .afm or .pfb file can't be read or parsed
Method Detail

getDefaultLeading

public float getDefaultLeading()
Description copied from class: PDFFont

Get the default leading for this font - the preferred distance between two successive baselines of text. Values are a ratio of the font size, and are typically between 1 and 1.3

Note that the values of the different spacing-between-lines methods have changed - in versions 1.0.4 and earlier this routine normally returned 1 and the spacing was set by the PDFStyle.setTextLineSpacing(float) method. Since 1.1, the values for these two methods are effectively reversed. See the relevant method comments in the PDFStyle class for more information.

Specified by:
getDefaultLeading in class PDFFont

getSubscriptPosition

public float getSubscriptPosition()
Description copied from class: PDFFont

Get the recommended position of a sub-script version of this font, as a proportion of the sub-scripted font size. Value is almost always zero or negative.

For some fonts (like CJK or barcode fonts) where there is no concept of super or subscript, this value is entirely arbitrary.

Specified by:
getSubscriptPosition in class PDFFont

getSuperscriptPosition

public float getSuperscriptPosition()
Description copied from class: PDFFont

Get the recommended position of a super-script version of this font, as a proportion of the sub-scripted font size. Value is always positive.

For some fonts (like CJK or barcode fonts) where there is no concept of super or subscript, this value is entirely arbitrary.

Specified by:
getSuperscriptPosition in class PDFFont

getSubscriptSize

public float getSubscriptSize()
Description copied from class: PDFFont

Get the recommended size of a super/sub script version of this font, as a proportion of the normal font size. Typical value is around 0.6.

For some fonts (like CJK or barcode fonts) where there is no concept of super or subscript, this value is entirely arbitrary.

Specified by:
getSubscriptSize in class PDFFont

getStrikeoutThickness

public float getStrikeoutThickness()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the strikeout thickness, as a proportion of the font size.

Specified by:
getStrikeoutThickness in class PDFFont

getStrikeoutPosition

public float getStrikeoutPosition()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the strikeout position, as a proportion of the font size.

Specified by:
getStrikeoutPosition in class PDFFont

getUnderlineThickness

public float getUnderlineThickness()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the underline thickness, as a proportion of the font size.

Specified by:
getUnderlineThickness in class PDFFont

getUnderlinePosition

public float getUnderlinePosition()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the underline position, as a proportion of the font size. Like the getDescender() method, the returned value is almost always negative, indicating below the baseline.

Specified by:
getUnderlinePosition in class PDFFont

getAscender

public float getAscender()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the Ascender for the font (the maximum height above the baseline the font extends), as a proportion of the point size.

Specified by:
getAscender in class PDFFont

getDescender

public float getDescender()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the Descender for the font (the maximum height below the baseline the font extends), as a proportion of the point size. The returned value is usually negative.

Specified by:
getDescender in class PDFFont

getXHeight

public float getXHeight()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Get the X-Height of the font - normally the height of a lower-case 'x' character

Specified by:
getXHeight in class PDFFont

isMonospace

public boolean isMonospace()
Description copied from class: PDFFont
Return true if every character has the same width (like Courier), false if every character is potentially a different width (like Times-Roman)

Specified by:
isMonospace in class PDFFont

toString

public String toString()


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