text_output/image_as_text_fill_color
Create outline text and fill the interior of the glyphs with an image.
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/*
* Image as text fill color:
* Create outline text and fill the interior of the glyphs with an image.
*
* Define a pattern containing an image and use it as the fill color for the
* text being filled and stroked.
*
* Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9.0.2
* Required data: none
*/
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.text_output;
import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;
public class image_as_text_fill_color {
public static void main(String argv[]) {
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
String searchpath = "../input";
String outfile = "image_as_text_fill_color.pdf";
String title = "Image as Text Fill Color";
int exitcode = 0;
pdflib p = null;
String imagefile = "text_filling.tif";
int font, pattern, image;
double imageheight, imagewidth, resx, resy;
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, "") == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
p.set_info("Title", title);
/* Load the font. */
font = p.load_font("NotoSerif-Bold", "unicode", "");
if (font == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* Load the background image */
image = p.load_image("auto", imagefile, "");
if (image == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
/*
* Retrieve the image dimensions (related to its original
* resolution)
*/
imagewidth = p.info_image(image, "imagewidth", "");
imageheight = p.info_image(image, "imageheight", "");
/*
* The image may have a resolution above 72 dpi. If we used the
* returned dimensions (in points) for the pattern height and width
* and placed our image into the pattern, it wouldn't match the
* pattern size, and a white margin would be left. To make the
* pattern the same size as the image we calculate the image size
* based on its resolution.
*
* Retrieve the original image resolution
*/
resx = p.info_image(image, "resx", "");
resy = p.info_image(image, "resy", "");
/* Calculate the image dimensions for 72 dpi */
if (resx > 0) {
imagewidth = imagewidth * 72 / resx;
imageheight = imageheight * 72 / resy;
}
/*
* Create a pattern using the retrieved image dimensions. The
* painttype parameter must be set to 1 since a colorized image is
* used (as opposed to an image mask).
*/
pattern = p.begin_pattern_ext(imagewidth, imageheight, "");
p.fit_image(image, 0, 0, "");
p.end_pattern();
p.close_image(image);
/* Start page */
p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/*
* Set the pattern as the current fill color. Encapsulate the
* setcolor() call with save() and restore() to be able to proceed
* with the original colors.
*/
p.save();
/*
* In addition to filling the text (which is the default), stroke
* the text by setting the textrendering mode to 2 (fill and stroke)
* and defining a stroke color different from black.
*/
p.set_text_option("textrendering=2");
p.setcolor("stroke", "rgb", 0.5, 0.2, 0.1, 0);
p.setcolor("fill", "pattern", pattern, 0, 0, 0);
/*
* Output the text with the current fill color, i.e. the image in
* terms of the pattern color
*/
int fontsize = 50;
p.set_text_option("font=" + font + " fontsize=" + fontsize);
p.fit_textline("Hello World!", 50, 500, "");
p.fit_textline("(says PDFlib GmbH)", 50, 500 - fontsize, "");
p.restore();
p.end_page_ext("");
p.end_document("");
}
catch (PDFlibException e) {
System.err.println("PDFlib exception occurred:");
System.err.println("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname()
+ ": " + e.get_errmsg());
exitcode = 1;
}
catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println(e);
exitcode = 1;
}
finally {
if (p != null) {
p.delete();
}
System.exit(exitcode);
}
}
}