Package com.lowagie.text.pdf

Class FontSelector

java.lang.Object

com.lowagie.text.pdf.FontSelector

public class FontSelector
extends Object

Selects the appropriate fonts that contain the glyphs needed to render text correctly. The fonts are checked in order until the character is found.

The built in fonts "Symbol" and "ZapfDingbats", if used, have a special encoding to allow the characters to be referred by Unicode.

Author:

Paulo Soares (psoares@consiste.pt)

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
protected ArrayList<Font>	fonts

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
FontSelector()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	addFont(Font font)	Adds a Font to be searched for valid characters.
Phrase	process(String text)	Process the text so that it will render with a combination of fonts if needed.
void	setDefaultColor(Color color)	change the color of default font in FontSelector.
void	setDefaultSize(float size)	change the size of default font in FontSelector.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Details

fonts

protected ArrayList<Font> fonts

Constructor Details

FontSelector

public FontSelector()

Method Details

setDefaultColor

public void setDefaultColor(Color color)

change the color of default font in FontSelector.

Parameters:

color - the Color of default font

setDefaultSize

public void setDefaultSize(float size)

change the size of default font in FontSelector.

Parameters:

size - the size of default font

addFont

public void addFont(Font font)

Adds a Font to be searched for valid characters.

Parameters:

font - the Font

process

public Phrase process(String text)

Process the text so that it will render with a combination of fonts if needed.

Parameters:

text - the text

Returns:

a Phrase with one or more chunks