The Lucida fonts shipped by sun have the character. The font match is done
comparing with java.awt.Font.getFontName(). To match the bold you'd have
"sansserif.bold".
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Warren [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 17:28
> To: Paulo Soares
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Unicode fonts via PDFGraphics2D
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:08:32PM +0100, Paulo Soares wrote:
> > > What I can't do is actually select and use this font via the Graphics
> 2D
> > > interface. I found part of a thread in the mailing list archives
> (which
> > > is where I got the above code) but I couldn't find the beginning of
> the
> > > thread.
> > >
> > The purpose of the FonfMapper is to map a PDF font to a awt font.
> > This implies that there is a awt font to start with. You'll have to find
> out
> > how are the fonts registered in Unix. In Windows, all the system fonts
> are
> > automatically registered and I suspect that it's the same in Unix with
> the X
> > fonts.
>
> OK. What I was trying to do is make the logical font name "SanSerif"
> resolve to be this particular TTF font, without registering that font
> with the X server. I am intending to run this under jdk 1.4, running
> with the "headless" option - I have yet to investigate how fonts are
> registered in this case.
>
> > If you can't register the font you may replace any awt font with:
> >
> > mapper.putName("sansserif", pp);
>
> That works - many thanks.
>
> I had tried this previously, but with:
>
> mapper.putName("SanSerif", pp);
>
> Like this, it does not work, with "sansserif" it does. Both ways, I
> create the font in AWT using:
>
> new Font("SanSerif", Font.PLAIN, 18);
>
> > > A non-itext related problem that I have is that we will not be able to
> > > distribute the MS Arial Unicode font as part of our application. Can
> > > anyone suggest an alternative source for a font containing the
> infinity
> > > symbol?
> > >
> > All the standard Windows fonts have that symbol.
>
> Unfortunately, the EULA prevents us from redistributing these fonts with
> our application. I have just realised that the Lucida font distributed
> with Java is a TTF font, and contains a good range of characters, so
> that may be suitable.
>
> thanks for your help,
>
> Paul
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