Package com.itextpdf.kernel.font

Class PdfFontFactory

java.lang.Object

com.itextpdf.kernel.font.PdfFontFactory

 public final class PdfFontFactory extends Object 
      

This class provides helpful methods for creating fonts ready to be used in a PdfDocument

Note, just created PdfFont is almost empty until it will be flushed, because it is impossible to fulfill font data until flush.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static enum	PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy	Enum values for font embedding strategies.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PdfFontFactory()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static PdfFont	createFont()	Creates a new instance of default font, namely StandardFonts.HELVETICA standard font with PdfEncodings.WINANSI encoding.
static PdfFont	createFont(byte[] fontProgram, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy)	Created a PdfFont instance by the bytes of the underlying font program.
static PdfFont	createFont(byte[] fontProgram, String encoding)	Created a PdfFont instance by the bytes of the underlying font program.
static PdfFont	createFont(byte[] fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy)	Created a PdfFont instance by the bytes of the underlying font program.
static PdfFont	createFont(byte[] fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, boolean cached)	Created a PdfFont instance by the bytes of the underlying font program.
static PdfFont	createFont(FontProgram fontProgram)	Created a PdfFont instance given the given underlying FontProgram instance.
static PdfFont	createFont(FontProgram fontProgram, String encoding)	Created a PdfFont instance given the given underlying FontProgram instance.
static PdfFont	createFont(FontProgram fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy)	Created a PdfFont instance given the given underlying FontProgram instance.
static PdfFont	createFont(PdfDictionary fontDictionary)	Creates a PdfFont by already existing font dictionary.
static PdfFont	createFont(String fontProgram)	Creates a PdfFont instance by the path of the font program file
static PdfFont	createFont(String fontProgram, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy)	Created a PdfFont instance given the path to the font file.
static PdfFont	createFont(String fontProgram, String encoding)	Creates a PdfFont instance by the path of the font program file and given encoding.
static PdfFont	createFont(String fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy)	Created a PdfFont instance given the path to the font file.
static PdfFont	createFont(String fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, boolean cached)	Created a PdfFont instance given the path to the font file.
static PdfFont	createFont(String fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, PdfDocument cacheTo)	Creates a PdfFont instance by the path of the font program file and given encoding and place it inside the PdfDocument.
static PdfFont	createFont(String fontProgram, String encoding, PdfDocument cacheTo)	Creates a PdfFont instance by the path of the font program file and given encoding and place it inside the PdfDocument.
static PdfFont	createRegisteredFont(String fontName)	Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's.
static PdfFont	createRegisteredFont(String fontName, String encoding)	Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's.
static PdfFont	createRegisteredFont(String fontName, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy)	Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's.
static PdfFont	createRegisteredFont(String fontName, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, boolean cached)	Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's.
static PdfFont	createRegisteredFont(String fontName, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, int style)	Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's.
static PdfFont	createRegisteredFont(String fontName, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, int style, boolean cached)	Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's.
static PdfFont	createTtcFont(byte[] ttc, int ttcIndex, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, boolean cached)	Creates a PdfFont instance from the TrueType Collection represented by its byte contents.
static PdfFont	createTtcFont(String ttc, int ttcIndex, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, boolean cached)	Creates a PdfFont instance from the TrueType Collection given by the path to the .ttc file.
static PdfType3Font	createType3Font(PdfDocument document, boolean colorized)	Creates a new instance of PdfType3Font
static PdfType3Font	createType3Font(PdfDocument document, String fontName, String fontFamily, boolean colorized)	Creates a new instance of PdfType3Font
static Set<String>	getRegisteredFamilies()	Gets a set of registered font families.
static Set<String>	getRegisteredFonts()	Gets a set of registered font names.
static boolean	isRegistered(String fontName)	Checks if a certain font is registered.
static void	register(String path)	Registers a .ttf, .otf, .afm, .pfm, or a .ttc font file.
static void	register(String path, String alias)	Register a font file and use an alias for the font contained in it.
static int	registerDirectory(String dirPath)	Registers all the fonts in a directory.
static void	registerFamily(String familyName, String fullName, String path)	Register a font by giving explicitly the font family and name.
static int	registerSystemDirectories()	Register fonts in some probable directories.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

PdfFontFactory

 public PdfFontFactory() 
            

Method Details

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont() throws IOException 
            

Creates a new instance of default font, namely StandardFonts.HELVETICA standard font with PdfEncodings.WINANSI encoding. Note, if you want to reuse the same instance of default font, you may use PdfDocument.getDefaultFont().

Returns:

created font

Throws:

IOException - if error occurred while creating the font, e.g. metrics loading failure

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (PdfDictionary fontDictionary) 
            

Creates a PdfFont by already existing font dictionary.

Note, the font won't be added to any document, until you add it to PdfCanvas. While adding to PdfCanvas, or to PdfResources the font will be made indirect implicitly.

PdfDocument.getFont(com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfDictionary) method is strongly recommended if you want to get PdfFont by both existing font dictionary, or just created and hasn't flushed yet.

Parameters:

fontDictionary - the font dictionary to create the font from

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (String fontProgram, String encoding, PdfDocument cacheTo) throws IOException 
            

Creates a PdfFont instance by the path of the font program file and given encoding and place it inside the PdfDocument. If such PdfFont has already been created and placed inside the PdfDocument, then retries its instance instead of creating. PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy.PREFER_EMBEDDED will be used as embedding strategy.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the path of the font program file

encoding - the font encoding. See PdfEncodings

cacheTo - the PdfDocument to cache the font

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - exception is thrown in case an I/O error occurs when reading the file

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (String fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, PdfDocument cacheTo) throws IOException 
            

Creates a PdfFont instance by the path of the font program file and given encoding and place it inside the PdfDocument. If such PdfFont has already been created and placed inside the PdfDocument, then retries its instance instead of creating.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the path of the font program file

encoding - the font encoding. See PdfEncodings

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded

cacheTo - the PdfDocument to cache the font

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - exception is thrown in case an I/O error occurs when reading the file

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (String fontProgram) throws IOException 
            

Creates a PdfFont instance by the path of the font program file

Parameters:

fontProgram - the path of the font program file

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - exception is thrown in case an I/O error occurs when reading the file

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (String fontProgram, String encoding) throws IOException 
            

Creates a PdfFont instance by the path of the font program file and given encoding.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the path of the font program file

encoding - the font encoding. See PdfEncodings

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - exception is thrown in case an I/O error occurs when reading the file

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (String fontProgram, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy) throws IOException 
            

Created a PdfFont instance given the path to the font file.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the font program file

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - in case the file is not found or the contents of the font file is mal-formed

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (String fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy) throws IOException 
            

Created a PdfFont instance given the path to the font file.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the font program file

encoding - the encoding of the font to be created. See PdfEncodings

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - in case the file is not found or the contents of the font file is mal-formed

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (String fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, boolean cached) throws IOException 
            

Created a PdfFont instance given the path to the font file.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the font program file

encoding - the encoding of the font to be created. See PdfEncodings

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded

cached - indicates whether the font will be cached

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - in case the file is not found or the contents of the font file is mal-formed

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (FontProgram fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy) 
            

Created a PdfFont instance given the given underlying FontProgram instance.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the font program of the PdfFont instance to be created

encoding - the encoding of the font to be created. See PdfEncodings

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (FontProgram fontProgram, String encoding) 
            

Created a PdfFont instance given the given underlying FontProgram instance.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the font program of the PdfFont instance to be created

encoding - the encoding of the font to be created. See PdfEncodings

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (FontProgram fontProgram) 
            

Created a PdfFont instance given the given underlying FontProgram instance.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the font program of the PdfFont instance to be created

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (byte[] fontProgram, String encoding) throws IOException 
            

Created a PdfFont instance by the bytes of the underlying font program.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the bytes of the underlying font program

encoding - the encoding of the font to be created. See PdfEncodings

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - signals that an I/O exception has occurred.

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (byte[] fontProgram, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy) throws IOException 
            

Created a PdfFont instance by the bytes of the underlying font program.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the bytes of the underlying font program

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - signals that an I/O exception has occurred.

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (byte[] fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy) throws IOException 
            

Created a PdfFont instance by the bytes of the underlying font program.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the bytes of the underlying font program

encoding - the encoding of the font to be created. See PdfEncodings

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - signals that an I/O exception has occurred.

createFont

 public static PdfFont createFont 
             (byte[] fontProgram, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, boolean cached) throws IOException 
            

Created a PdfFont instance by the bytes of the underlying font program.

Parameters:

fontProgram - the bytes of the underlying font program

encoding - the encoding of the font to be created. See PdfEncodings

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded

cached - indicates whether the font will be cached

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - signals that an I/O exception has occurred.

createTtcFont

 public static PdfFont createTtcFont 
             (byte[] ttc, int ttcIndex, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, boolean cached) throws IOException 
            

Creates a PdfFont instance from the TrueType Collection represented by its byte contents.

Parameters:

ttc - the byte contents of the TrueType Collection

ttcIndex - the index of the font in the collection, zero-based

encoding - the encoding of the font to be created. See PdfEncodings

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded

cached - indicates whether the font will be cached

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - in case the contents of the TrueType Collection is mal-formed or an error occurred during reading the font

createTtcFont

 public static PdfFont createTtcFont 
             (String ttc, int ttcIndex, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, boolean cached) throws IOException 
            

Creates a PdfFont instance from the TrueType Collection given by the path to the .ttc file.

Parameters:

ttc - the path of the .ttc file

ttcIndex - the index of the font in the collection, zero-based

encoding - the encoding of the font to be created. See PdfEncodings

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded

cached - indicates whether the font will be cached

Returns:

created PdfFont instance

Throws:

IOException - in case the file is not found, contents of the TrueType Collection is mal-formed or an error occurred during reading the font

createType3Font

 public static PdfType3Font createType3Font 
             (PdfDocument document, boolean colorized) 
            

Creates a new instance of PdfType3Font

Parameters:

document - the target document of the new font

colorized - indicates whether the font will be colorized

Returns:

created font

createType3Font

 public static PdfType3Font createType3Font 
             (PdfDocument document, String fontName, String fontFamily, boolean colorized) 
            

Creates a new instance of PdfType3Font

Parameters:

document - the target document of the new font.

fontName - the PostScript name of the font, shall not be null or empty.

fontFamily - a preferred font family name.

colorized - indicates whether the font will be colorized

Returns:

created font.

createRegisteredFont

 public static PdfFont createRegisteredFont 
             (String fontName, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, int style, boolean cached) throws IOException 
            

Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's. Required font program is expected to be previously registered by one of the register method from PdfFontFactory.

Parameters:

fontName - Path to font file or Standard font name

encoding - Font encoding from PdfEncodings.

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded. Note, standard font won't be embedded in any case.

style - Font style from FontStyles.

cached - If true font will be cached for another PdfDocument

Returns:

created font if required FontProgram was found among registered, otherwise null.

Throws:

IOException - exception is thrown in case an I/O error occurs when reading the file

See Also:

• register(String)
• register(String, String)
• registerFamily(String, String, String)
• registerDirectory(String)
• registerSystemDirectories()
• getRegisteredFamilies()
• getRegisteredFonts()

createRegisteredFont

 public static PdfFont createRegisteredFont 
             (String fontName, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, boolean cached) throws IOException 
            

Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's. Required font program is expected to be previously registered by one of the register method from PdfFontFactory.

Parameters:

fontName - Path to font file or Standard font name

encoding - Font encoding from PdfEncodings.

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded. Note, standard font won't be embedded in any case.

cached - If true font will be cached for another PdfDocument

Returns:

created font if required FontProgram was found among registered, otherwise null.

Throws:

IOException - exception is thrown in case an I/O error occurs when reading the file

See Also:

• register(String)
• register(String, String)
• registerFamily(String, String, String)
• registerDirectory(String)
• registerSystemDirectories()
• getRegisteredFamilies()
• getRegisteredFonts()

createRegisteredFont

 public static PdfFont createRegisteredFont 
             (String fontName, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy) throws IOException 
            

Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's. Required font program is expected to be previously registered by one of the register method from PdfFontFactory.

Parameters:

fontName - Path to font file or Standard font name

encoding - Font encoding from PdfEncodings.

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded. Note, standard font won't be embedded in any case.

Returns:

created font if required FontProgram was found among registered, otherwise null.

Throws:

IOException - exception is thrown in case an I/O error occurs when reading the file

See Also:

• register(String)
• register(String, String)
• registerFamily(String, String, String)
• registerDirectory(String)
• registerSystemDirectories()
• getRegisteredFamilies()
• getRegisteredFonts()

createRegisteredFont

 public static PdfFont createRegisteredFont 
             (String fontName, String encoding, PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy embeddingStrategy, int style) throws IOException 
            

Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's. Required font program is expected to be previously registered by one of the register method from PdfFontFactory.

Parameters:

fontName - Path to font file or Standard font name

encoding - Font encoding from PdfEncodings.

embeddingStrategy - the PdfFontFactory.EmbeddingStrategy which will define whether the font will be embedded. Note, standard font won't be embedded in any case.

style - Font style from FontStyles.

Returns:

created font if required FontProgram was found among registered, otherwise null.

Throws:

IOException - exception is thrown in case an I/O error occurs when reading the file

See Also:

• register(String)
• register(String, String)
• registerFamily(String, String, String)
• registerDirectory(String)
• registerSystemDirectories()
• getRegisteredFamilies()
• getRegisteredFonts()

createRegisteredFont

 public static PdfFont createRegisteredFont 
             (String fontName, String encoding) throws IOException 
            

Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's. Required font program is expected to be previously registered by one of the register method from PdfFontFactory.

Parameters:

fontName - Path to font file or Standard font name

encoding - Font encoding from PdfEncodings.

Returns:

created font if required FontProgram was found among registered, otherwise null.

Throws:

IOException - exception is thrown in case an I/O error occurs when reading the file

See Also:

• register(String)
• register(String, String)
• registerFamily(String, String, String)
• registerDirectory(String)
• registerSystemDirectories()
• getRegisteredFamilies()
• getRegisteredFonts()

createRegisteredFont

 public static PdfFont createRegisteredFont 
             (String fontName) throws IOException 
            

Creates PdfFont based on registered FontProgram's. Required font program is expected to be previously registered by one of the register method from PdfFontFactory.

Parameters:

fontName - Path to font file or Standard font name

Returns:

created font if required FontProgram was found among registered, otherwise null.

Throws:

IOException - exception is thrown in case an I/O error occurs when reading the file

See Also:

• register(String)
• register(String, String)
• registerFamily(String, String, String)
• registerDirectory(String)
• registerSystemDirectories()
• getRegisteredFamilies()
• getRegisteredFonts()

registerFamily

 public static void registerFamily 
             (String familyName, String fullName, String path) 
            

Register a font by giving explicitly the font family and name.

Parameters:

familyName - the font family

fullName - the font name

path - the font path

register

 public static void register 
             (String path) 
            

Registers a .ttf, .otf, .afm, .pfm, or a .ttc font file. In case if TrueType Collection (.ttc), an additional parameter may be specified defining the index of the font to be registered, e.g. "path/to/font/collection.ttc,0". The index is zero-based.

Parameters:

path - the path to a font file

register

 public static void register 
             (String path, String alias) 
            

Register a font file and use an alias for the font contained in it.

Parameters:

path - the path to a font file

alias - the alias you want to use for the font

registerDirectory

 public static int registerDirectory 
             (String dirPath) 
            

Registers all the fonts in a directory.

Parameters:

dirPath - the directory path to be registered as a font directory path

Returns:

the number of fonts registered

registerSystemDirectories

 public static int registerSystemDirectories() 
            

Register fonts in some probable directories. It usually works in Windows, Linux and Solaris.

Returns:

the number of fonts registered

getRegisteredFonts

 public static Set<String> getRegisteredFonts() 
            

Gets a set of registered font names.

Returns:

a set of registered fonts

getRegisteredFamilies

 public static Set<String> getRegisteredFamilies() 
            

Gets a set of registered font families.

Returns:

a set of registered font families

isRegistered

 public static boolean isRegistered 
             (String fontName) 
            

Checks if a certain font is registered.

Parameters:

fontName - the name of the font that has to be checked.

Returns:

true if the font is found, false otherwise