fonts/font_metrics_info
Query various font-related metrics such as ascender or descender.
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<?php
/*
* Font metrics info:
* Get various font related metrics such as the ascender or descender
*
* Use the info_font() function to get the metrics values for the capheight,
* ascender, descender, or xheight of the font. Visualize these metrics
* using the "matchbox" feature.
*
* Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 10
* Required data: font file
*/
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
$searchpath = dirname(__FILE__,3)."/input";
$outfile = "";
$title = "Font Metrics Info";
$text = "ABCdefghij";
$x=150;
$y=140;
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=300 height=200");
$font = $p->load_font("NotoSerif-Regular", "unicode", "");
if ($font == 0)
throw new Exception("Error: " . $p->get_errmsg());
/* Retrieve the font metrics for a font size of 10. If no fontsize
* is supplied the metrics will be based on a font size of 1000.
*/
$capheight = $p->info_font($font, "capheight", "fontsize=10");
$ascender = $p->info_font($font, "ascender", "fontsize=10");
$descender = $p->info_font($font, "descender", "fontsize=10");
$xheight = $p->info_font($font, "xheight", "fontsize=10");
/* Set the format of the metrics values to two fractional digits */
$p->setfont($font, 10);
/* Output each of the font metrics with appropriate formatting as well
* as the sample $text "ABCdefghij" with the metrics value colorized
*/
$p->fit_textline("capheight for font size 10: " . sprintf("%.2f", $capheight),
$x, $y, "alignchar :");
$optlist = "matchbox={fillcolor={rgb 1 0.8 0.8} " .
"boxheight={capheight none}}";
$p->fit_textline($text, $x+60, $y, $optlist);
$p->fit_textline("ascender for font size 10: " . sprintf("%.2f", $ascender),
$x, $y-=30, "alignchar :");
$optlist = "matchbox={fillcolor={rgb 1 0.8 0.8} " .
"boxheight={ascender none}}";
$p->fit_textline($text, $x+60, $y, $optlist);
$p->fit_textline("descender for font size 10: " . sprintf("%.2f", $descender),
$x, $y-=30, "alignchar :");
$optlist = "matchbox={fillcolor={rgb 1 0.8 0.8} " .
"boxheight={none descender}}";
$p->fit_textline($text, $x+60, $y, $optlist);
$p->fit_textline("xheight for font size 10: " . sprintf("%.1f", $xheight),
$x, $y-=30, "alignchar :");
$optlist = "matchbox={fillcolor={rgb 1 0.8 0.8} " .
"boxheight={xheight none}}";
$p->fit_textline($text, $x+60, $y, $optlist);
/* Finish page */
$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=font_metrics_info.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;
?>