Andreas , Thanks for your reply
>> These are all AWT-Fonts which can't be embedded to a pdf directly. They have >> to be converted somehow. I guess there isn't any code to do that, but please >> prove me wrong if you find something appropriate. ;-) Actually there is, but for Windows operating system only : File fontFile = new File( FontManager.getFontPath( true ) + "/" + "verdana.TTF" ); PDSimpleFont pdfFont = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF( pdfFile, fontFile ); The problem is that the FontManager does not work for Mac OS X. Any idea Andreas how to do that ? Best regards , Hesham --------------------------------------------- Included message : > Hi, > > Am 22.05.2012 15:45, schrieb Hesham G.: >> Hello , >> >> This is a more Java question rather than a PDFBox question : ) , but I can't >> find an answer to it. >> >> I am trying to use a system font file in drawing text to a PDF file using >> PDFBox, through the method : >> PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF( PDDocuent pdfFile, File fontFile ); >> >> The problem here is that the loadTTF(...) method accepts a (File) object, >> while I can only get the System font as a (Font) object using this code : >> GraphicsEnvironment e = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(); >> Font[] fonts = e.getAllFonts(); > These are all AWT-Fonts which can't be embedded to a pdf directly. They have > to > be converted somehow. I guess there isn't any code to do that, but please > prove > me wrong if you find something appropriate. ;-) > >> Where I get one of the (fonts) objects to use it. Is there a way to convert >> the Font object to File object ? >> I am using Mac OS X. > All those awt-fonts should be related to a "real" font somewhere in the > filesystem. Maybe you are able to find them using the name from the AWT-Font? > Probably those have a suitable format which can be used within a pdf. > >> Best regards , >> Hesham > > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler >
