Thanks, but which filename should I use to tell pdfbox to use the font from the delivered lib?
-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:35:58 +0100 > Von: Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > CC: Gerrit Lober <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: Problem with PDFont.getStringWidth() > Am 06.12.2012 08:22, schrieb Gerrit Lober: > > Dear Andreas, thanks, I think you answered my question and it is a > problem with helvetica font, that every letter has the same width. > Not every letter but the figures > > > Therefore it seem when I try to center the textposition with > > > > float textPosition = pageCenter.x - (font.getWidth("12")/2); > > > > that my text is not centered because the "1" needs less space than a "3" > for example in Helvetica. > Try to position each character separately > > > I see that there is an included resource in PDFbox for ArialMT. How can > I load this font? > It is a true type font. Use PDTrueTypeFont#loadTTF() > > > How can I answer a reply in this mailing list? I don't get your mail in > my inbox. > Send an email to [email protected] to subscribe to the > mailing > list, see [1] for further information. > > > > Thanks! > > > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler > > [1] http://pdfbox.apache.org/mail-lists.html
