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text_output/starter_textline

Demonstrate various options for placing a text line.

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/*
 * Starter text line:
 * Demonstrate various options for placing a text line
 * 
 * Place a text line with different font sizes. 
 * Output overlined, stroke out, and underlined text.
 * Output text and define character spacing, work spacing, or horizontal 
 * scaling.
 * Output text with a defined fill color. Output text including its outlines
 * with a defined stroke color.
 * Place text into a box at various positions. Place text completely into a box
 * with automatic scaling if required.
 *
 * Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 9
 * Required data: none
 */
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.text_output;

import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;

public class starter_textline
{
    public static void main (String argv[])
    {
        /* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
        String searchpath = "../input";
        String outfile = "starter_textline.pdf";
        String title = "Starter Text Line";

        pdflib p = null;
        int exitcode = 0;
        int font, x = 10, xt = 280, y = 800, yoff = 50;
        String optlist;
        String textline = "Giant Wing Paper Plane";

        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");

            /* Set an output path according to the name of the topic */
            if (p.begin_document(outfile, "") == -1)
                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");

            font = p.load_font("NotoSerif-Regular", "unicode", "");

            if (font == -1)
                throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
            
            /* Set the font with a font size of 14 */
            p.setfont(font, 14);


            /* Place the text line without any options applied */
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y, "");
            
            /* Output descriptive text */
            p.fit_textline("fit_textline() without any options", xt, y,
                "fontsize=12");
            
            
            /* Place the text with a different font size */
            optlist = "fontsize=22";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
            
            
            /* Place stroke out text */
            optlist = "strikeout";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
            
            
            /* Place underlined text */
            optlist = "underline underlinewidth=7% underlineposition=-20%";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
            
            
            /* Place overlined text */
            optlist = "overline";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
            
            
            /* Place the text with a horizontal scaling of 150% */
            optlist = "horizscaling=150%";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
            
            
            /* Place the text with a character spacing of 30% of the font size */
            optlist = "charspacing=30%";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
            
            
            /* Place the text with a word spacing of 50% of the font size */
            optlist = "wordspacing=50%";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
            
            
            /* Place the text with a different fill color */
            optlist = "fillcolor={rgb 0.5 0.2 0.5}";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist);
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y, "fontsize=12");
            
            
            /* Place the text including its outlines using a text rendering mode of
             * 2 for "filling and stroking text" and different fill and stroke
             * colors
             */
            optlist = 
                "fontsize=22 fillcolor={rgb 0.6 0.3 0.6} strokecolor={gray 0} " +
                "strokewidth=0.4 textrendering=2";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist);
            
            /* Output descriptive text */
            p.fit_textline("fillcolor={rgb 0.6 0.3 0.6} strokecolor={gray 0} ",
                xt, y+10, "fontsize=12");
            p.fit_textline("strokewidth=0.4 textrendering=2 fontsize=22",
                xt, y-5, "fontsize=12");
            
            
            /* Place the text with its outlines using a text rendering mode of
             * 1 for "stroking text" and a stroke color of black
             */
            optlist =
                "fontsize=22 strokecolor={gray 0} strokewidth=0.4 textrendering=1";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist);
            
            /* Output descriptive text */
            p.fit_textline("strokecolor={gray 0} strokewidth=0.4", xt, y+10,
                "fontsize=12");
            p.fit_textline("textrendering=1 fontsize=22", xt, y-=5,
                "fontsize=12");
            
            
            /* Place the text in a box with default positioning and fitting */
            optlist = "boxsize={200 20} showborder";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y+3, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
            
            
            /* Place the text in a box on the top right */
            optlist = "boxsize={200 20} position={top right} showborder";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y+3, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
            
            
            /* Use "fitmethod=clip" to place the text in a box not large enough to 
             * show the complete text. The text will be clipped.
             */
            optlist = "boxsize={130 20} fitmethod=clip showborder";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y+3, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
            
            
            /* Fit the text into the box automatically with "fitmethod=auto".
             * In this case, if the text doesn't fit into the box a distortion
             * factor is calculated which makes the text fit into the box. If this 
             * factor is larger than the "shrinklimit" option the text will
             * be distorted by that factor. Otherwise, the font size will be
             * be decreased until until the text fits into the box.
             */
                        
            /* Use "fitmethod=auto" to place the text in a box not large enough to 
             * show the complete text. The text will be distorted.
             */
            optlist = "boxsize={130 20} fitmethod=auto showborder";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y+3, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
         
            
            /* Use "fitmethod=auto" to place the text in a box too small to show the
             * complete text. The font size will be reduced until the text fits into
             * the box.
             */
            optlist = "boxsize={100 20} fitmethod=auto showborder";
            
            p.fit_textline(textline, x, y-=yoff, optlist); /* sample text */
            p.fit_textline(optlist, xt, y+3, "fontsize=12"); /* description */
                 
            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);
        }
    }
}