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);
}
}
}