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Interface Font

public interface Font

Represents a PDF font.

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Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
char[]	getCharSeqForCode(int charCode) Returns the character sequence that corresponds to the given character code for this Font.
java.lang.String	getFontName() Returns the name of this font as specified in the PDF file.
boolean	isBold() Returns true if this font is bold.
boolean	isItalic() Returns true if this font is italic.

Method Detail

getFontName

java.lang.String getFontName()

Returns the name of this font as specified in the PDF file. Developers should not expect this to be a 'clean' font name, such as 'Helvetica'; names like '/EHFHIL+Helvetica' are common.

This name is sourced from the /BaseFont value supplied with the font information in the PDF file, if any.

isBold

boolean isBold()

Returns true if this font is bold. This indicator is not 100% reliable, as some fonts may appear bold when printed or displayed but are not identified as bold internally within a PDF document.

isItalic

boolean isItalic()

Returns true if this font is italic. This indicator is not 100% reliable, as some fonts may appear bold when printed or displayed but are not identified as bold internally within a PDF document.

getCharSeqForCode

char[] getCharSeqForCode(int charCode)

Returns the character sequence that corresponds to the given character code for this Font. This function is used by PDFTextStream to determine the value of TextUnit.getCharacterSequence() for each character code yielded by TextUnit.getCharCode().

This function can return null if no character sequence is associated with the given character code, in which case the Unicode character corresponding with the character code should be used when rendering a TextUnit instance whose TextUnit.getCharCode() function returns the given charater code.