fonts/starter_type3font

 * Type 3 font starter:

 * Create a simple Type 3 font from vector data

 *

 * Define a type 3 font with the glyphs "l" and "space" and output text with

 * that font. In addition the glyph ".notdef" is defined which any undefined

 * character will be mapped to.

 *

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

 * Required data: none

 */

package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.fonts;

import com.pdflib.pdflib;

import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;

public class starter_type3font

{

    public static void main (String argv[])

    {

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

    String searchpath = "../input";

    String outfile = "starter_type3font.pdf";

    String title = "Starter Type 3 Font";

    pdflib p = null;

    int font;

    double x, y;

    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: 1.13 $");

        /* Create the font "SimpleFont" containing the glyph "l",

         * the glyph "space" for spaces and the glyph ".notdef" for any

         * undefined character

         */

        p.begin_font("SimpleFont", 0.001, 0.0, 0.0, 0.001, 0.0, 0.0, "");

        p.begin_glyph(".notdef", 266, 0, 0, 0, 0);

        p.end_glyph();

        p.begin_glyph("space", 266, 0, 0, 0, 0);

        p.end_glyph();

        p.begin_glyph("l", 266, 69, 0, 197, 530);

        p.setlinewidth(20);

        p.setdash(0, 0);

        x = 197;

        y = 0;

        p.moveto(x, y);

        y += 530;

        p.lineto(x, y);

        x -= 64;

        p.lineto(x, y);

        y -= 530;

        p.moveto(x, y);

        x += 128;

        p.lineto(x, y);

        p.closepath();

        p.stroke();

        p.end_glyph();

        p.end_font();

        /* Start page */

        p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=300 height=200");

        /* Load the new "SimpleFont" font */

        font = p.load_font("SimpleFont", "winansi", "");

        if (font == -1)

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

        /* Output the characters "l" and "space" of the "SimpleFont" font.

         * The character "x" is undefined and will be mapped to ".notdef"

         */

        p.fit_textline("lll lllxlll", 100, 100, "font=" + font +

            " fontsize=40");

        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();

            }

        }

    }

}