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Corinna
Corinna

Reputation: 33

Using PDFbox to create PDF referencing OTF fonts

Good morning!

I have a newbie PDFbox question which I'm hoping for some help with ...

I've just (last week) downloaded the latest PDFbox source from github and am trying to create a HelloWorldOTF.java, based on the HelloWorldTTF.java example, with the hope of creating a PDF file which uses an OTF font (in this case, Adobe Caslon Pro Regular) to add text to the output PDF.

Here's what I have so far:

        doc = new PDDocument();

        PDPage page = new PDPage();
        doc.addPage(page);

        String testOtfFontFile =  "c:/windows/fonts/ACaslonPro-Regular.otf";
        String testTtfFontFile = "c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf";
        String testPdfFile = "c:/tmp/pdfboxtest.pdf";

        CFFFont font = loadCFFFont(testOtfFontFile);

        PDFont ttfFont = PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(doc, new File(testTtfFontFile));

        PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc,
                page);
        contentStream.beginText();
        // How to set the CFFFont?
        contentStream.setFont(ttfFont, 12);
        contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(100, 700);
        contentStream.drawString(text);
        contentStream.endText();
        contentStream.close();
        doc.save(testPdfFile);
        System.out.println(testPdfFile + " created!");

I can load a CFFFont using this code: (loadCFFFont()):

            CFFFont cff = null;
            input = new FileInputStream(file);
            byte[] bytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(input);
            CFFParser cffParser = new CFFParser();
            cff = cffParser.parse(bytes).get(0);

... but can't for the life of me figure out how to get from a CFFFont to a PDFont in order to be able to use it to set the font via setFont().

Any help or pointers would be hugely appreciated ...

Thanks a million for reading this far ;)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3824

Answers (2)

MoonLord
MoonLord

Reputation: 61

Using a byte array (which contains the binary data of a font file) to create a PDFont instance:

PDFont font;
if (fontName.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT).endsWith(".otf")) {
    OpenTypeFont otf = new OTFParser().parse(new RandomAccessReadBuffer(new ByteArrayInputStream(fontContent)));
    font = PDType0Font.load(document, otf, false);
} else {
    font = PDType0Font.load(document, new ByteArrayInputStream(fontContent));
}

Upvotes: 1

sin_kai
sin_kai

Reputation: 31

It worked for me by referring to this link.

Using OTFParser to covert otf to ttf.

OTFParser otfParser = new OTFParser();
OpenTypeFont otf = otfParser.parse(new File("C:/Users/beder/Downloads/code/CODE Light.otf"));

PDFont font = PDType0Font.load(document, otf, false);

Upvotes: 3

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