fonts/simulated_fontstyles
Simulate italic and bold text
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<?php
/*
* Simulated font styles:
* Create simulated italic or bold text output
*
* Output text lines and Textflows with simulated obliqued or bold font, which
* is useful if a real italic or bold variant of the font is not available.
*
* Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9
* Required data: font
*/
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
$searchpath = dirname(__FILE__,3)."/input";
$outfile = "";
$title = "Simulated Font Styles";
$textline = "Our Paper Planes";
$textflow =
"Our paper planes are the ideal way of passing the time. We offer " .
"revolutionary new developments of the traditional common paper " .
"planes. If your lesson, conference, or lecture turn out to be " .
"deadly boring, you can have a wonderful time with our planes.";
try {
$p = new PDFlib();
$p->set_option("searchpath={" . $searchpath . "}");
/* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */
$p->set_option("errorpolicy=return");
if ($p->begin_document($outfile, "") == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
$p->set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
$p->set_info("Title", $title);
/* Start Page */
$p->begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Load the font */
$font = $p->load_font("NotoSerif-Regular", "unicode", "");
if ($font == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
/* Place a text line with a simulated italic angle of -12. The
* characters will be slanted by 12 degrees to the right.
*/
$optlist = "font=" . $font . " fontsize=20 " . "italicangle=-12";
$p->fit_textline($textline . " (italicangle=-12)", 100, 750, $optlist);
/* Place a text line with a simulated bold font style */
$optlist = "font=" . $font . " fontsize=20 " . "fakebold=true";
$p->fit_textline($textline . " (fakebold=true)", 100, 650, $optlist);
/* Place a Textflow with a simulated italic angle of -12. The
* characters will be slanted by 12 degrees to the right.
*/
$optlist = "font=" . $font . " fontsize=20 italicangle=-12";
$tf = $p->add_textflow(0, "(italicangle=-12)\n" . $textflow, $optlist);
if ($tf == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
$result = $p->fit_textflow($tf, 100, 350, 450, 550, "");
if (!$result == "_stop")
{
/* Check for errors or more text to be placed */
}
$p->delete_textflow($tf);
/* Place a Textflow with a simulated bold font style */
$optlist = "font=" . $font . " fontsize=20 fakebold=true";
$tf = $p->add_textflow(0, "(fakebold=true)\n" . $textflow, $optlist);
if ($tf == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
$result = $p->fit_textflow($tf, 100, 100, 450, 300, "");
if (!$result == "_stop")
{
/* Check for errors or more text to be placed */
}
$p->delete_textflow($tf);
$p->end_page_ext("");
$p->end_document("");
$buf = $p->get_buffer();
$len = strlen($buf);
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $len");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=simulated_fontstyles.pdf");
print $buf;
} catch (PDFlibException $e) {
echo("PDFlib exception occurred:\n".
"[" . $e->get_errnum() . "] " . $e->get_apiname() .
": " . $e->get_errmsg() . "\n");
exit(1);
} catch (Throwable $e) {
echo("PHP exception occurred: " . $e->getMessage() . "\n");
exit(1);
}
$p = 0;
?>