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fonts/glyph_availability

Check the availability of glyphs in a font.
Load a font with "winansi" encoding and check using info_font() with the "code" keyword if the font contains the glyphs you need.
Then. load the font with "unicode" encoding and check using info_font() with the "glyphid" or "glyphname" options if the font contains particular glyphs.

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/* $Id: glyph_availability.java,v 1.1 2007/11/30 15:46:08 katja Exp $

 * Glyph availability:

 * Check the availability of glyphs in a font

 *

 * Load a font with "winansi" encoding and check using info_font() with the

 * "code" keyword if the font contains the glyphs you need.

 * Then. load the font with "unicode" encoding and check using info_font() with

 * the "glyphid" or "glyphname" options if the font contains particular glyphs.

 *

 * Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 7

 * Required data: font file

 */

package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.fonts;


import com.pdflib.pdflib;

import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;


public class glyph_availability

{

public static void main (String argv[])

    {

    /* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */

    String searchpath = "../input";

    String outfile = "glyph_availability.pdf";

    String title = "Glyph Availability";


    pdflib p = null;

    int font, x=30, y=700, yoff=30;

    double info = -1;

    String istr;


    try {

        p = new pdflib();


        p.set_parameter("SearchPath", searchpath);

       

        /* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */

        p.set_parameter("errorpolicy", "return");


        if (p.begin_document(outfile, "") == -1)

        throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());


        p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");

        p.set_info("Title", title + " $Revision: 1.1 $");

       

        /* Start page */

        p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");

       

       

        /* -------------------------------------------------------

         * In the first case, load the font with an 8-bit encoding

         * and perform a glyph check

         * -------------------------------------------------------

         */

               

        /* Load the font "Gentium-Italic" (see http://scripts.sil.org/gentium)

         * with "winansi" encoding and "embedding"

         *

         */

        font = p.load_font("GenI102", "winansi", "embedding");

        if (font == -1)

            throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());

       

        p.setfont(font, 22);

       

        /* Output some descriptive text */

        p.fit_textline("Check the Gentium-Italic font loaded with \"winansi\"" +

            " encoding", x, y, "");

       

        /* Check whether the Euro glyph is contained in a font by retrieving its

         * code. The "unicode" option expects a Unichar. For Unichars, glyph

         * name references are always used in lowercase letters without the &

         * and ; decoration. This is safer than checking the glyph name which

         * may be euro, Euro, or something different.

         */

        info = p.info_font(font, "code", "unicode=euro");

       

        if (info > -1) {

            /* Output the Euro glyph via a character reference by name. Then,

             * output the code retrieved.

             */

            p.fit_textline("The Euro glyph is available: €      Code: " +

                Integer.toString((int) info), x, y-=yoff, "charref");

        }

        else {

            p.fit_textline("No glyph for Euro available", x, y-=yoff, "");

        }

       

        y-=yoff;

       

        /* ---------------------------------------------------------

         * In the second case, load the font with "unicode" encoding

         * and perform various glyph check

         * ---------------------------------------------------------

         */       

 

        /* Load the font "Gentium-Italic" with "unicode" encoding

         * (see http://scripts.sil.org/gentium)

         */

        font = p.load_font("GenI102", "unicode", "");

        if (font == -1)

            throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());

       

        p.setfont(font, 22);

       

        /* Output some descriptive text */

        p.fit_textline("Check the Gentium-Italic font loaded with \"unicode\"" +

            " encoding", x, y-=yoff, "");


        /* Check if the Euro glyph is contained in the font by using

         * info_font() with the "glyphname" keyword and the "unicode" option

         * with a character reference by name

         */

        info = p.info_font(font, "glyphname", "unicode=euro");

        if (info > -1) {

            /* Output the Euro glyph via a character reference by name. Then,

             * output the glyph name retrieved.

             */

            istr = p.get_parameter("string", info);

            p.fit_textline("The Euro glyph is available: €      " +

                "Glyph name: " + istr, x, y-=yoff, "charref");

        }

        else {

            p.fit_textline("No glyph for Euro available", x, y-=yoff, "");

        }

                       

        /* Check if the glyph for the Polish "zacute" character is contained

         * in the font by using info_font() with the "glyphname" keyword and the

         * "unicode" option with the Unicode value

         */

        info = p.info_font(font, "glyphname", "unicode=U+017A");

        if (info > -1) {

            /* Output the Polish zacute glyph via the Unicode value. Then,

             * output the glyph name retrieved.

             */

            istr = p.get_parameter("string", info);

            p.fit_textline("The zacute glyph is available: \u017A      " +

                "Glyph name: " + istr, x, y-=yoff, "charref");

        }

        else {

            p.fit_textline("No glyph for zacute available", x, y-=yoff, "");

        }

       

        /* Check if the glyph for the Russian "ya" character is contained in the

         * font by using info_font() with the "glyphid" keyword and the

         * "unicode" option with the Unicode value

         */

        info = p.info_font(font, "glyphid", "unicode=U+042F");

        if (info > -1) {

            /* Output the ya glyph via the Unicode value. Then, output the

             * glyph id retrieved

             */

            p.fit_textline("The glyph for Russian ya is available: \u042F" +

                "      Glyph id: " + info, x, y-=yoff, "charref");

        }

        else {

            p.fit_textline("No glyph for Russian ya available", x, y-=yoff, "");

        }

       

        /* Check if the glyph for the alternative g character is contained in

         * the font by using info_font() with the "glyphid" keyword and the

         * "unicode" option with the glyph name

         */

        info = p.info_font(font, "glyphid", "unicode=.g.alt");

        if (info > -1) {

            /* Output the alternative g glyph via a character reference by

             * name. Then, output the glyph id.

             */

            p.fit_textline("The glyph for alternative g is available: " +

                "&.g.alt;      Glyph id: " + Integer.toString((int) info),

                x, y-=yoff, "charref");

        }

        else {

            p.fit_textline("No glyph for alternative g available",

                x, y-=yoff, "");

        }

       

        /* Finish page */

        p.end_page_ext("");


        p.end_document("");


        } catch (PDFlibException e) {

            System.err.print("PDFlib exception occurred:\n");

            System.err.print("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname() +

                ": " + e.get_errmsg() + "\n");

        } catch (Exception e) {

            System.err.println(e.getMessage());

        } finally {

            if (p != null) {

                p.delete();

            }

        }

    }

}