com.itextpdf.text.pdf

Class FontSelector

java.lang.Object

com.itextpdf.text.pdf.FontSelector

public class FontSelector
extends Object

Selects the appropriate fonts that contain the glyphs needed to render text correctly. The fonts are checked in order until the character is found.

The built in fonts "Symbol" and "ZapfDingbats", if used, have a special encoding to allow the characters to be referred by Unicode.

Author:

Paulo Soares

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected Font	currentFont
protected ArrayList<Font>	fonts
protected ArrayList<Font>	unsupportedFonts

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
FontSelector()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	addFont(Font font) Adds a Font to be searched for valid characters.
protected Font	getFont(int i)
protected int	getSize()
Phrase	process(String text) Process the text so that it will render with a combination of fonts if needed.
protected Chunk	processChar(char[] cc, int k, StringBuffer sb)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

fonts

protected ArrayList<Font> fonts

unsupportedFonts

protected ArrayList<Font> unsupportedFonts

currentFont

protected Font currentFont

Constructor Detail

FontSelector

public FontSelector()

Method Detail

addFont

public void addFont(Font font)

Adds a Font to be searched for valid characters.

Parameters:

font - the Font

process

public Phrase process(String text)

Process the text so that it will render with a combination of fonts if needed.

Parameters:

text - the text

Returns:

a Phrase with one or more chunks

processChar

protected Chunk processChar(char[] cc,
                            int k,
                            StringBuffer sb)

getSize

protected int getSize()

getFont

protected Font getFont(int i)