com.adobe.fontengine.font

Class Base14

java.lang.Object

com.adobe.fontengine.font.Base14

public final class Base14
extends Object

PDF Base 14 fonts.

PDF documents can refer to fourteen Type 1 fonts with well-known names, without having to embed those fonts, yet achieve predictable results. PDF consumers are supposed to have access to actual fonts that can be used whenever a PDF document refers to one of those fonts. Collectively, those fonts are known as the Base 14 fonts.

PDF consumers are given a little bit of freedom in choosing the actual fonts, but not much: the glyph complement, Type 1 encoding and the advance widths of the glyphs are imposed by the PDF specification.

AFE supports the generation of PDF documents that refers to those 14 fonts in the following way: AFE exposes 14 Font objects, and guarantees that if layout is performed with one of those objects, then a PDF content stream generated using the usual method (but calling for the corresponding Base 14 font, rather than embedding it) will lead to the appropriate result.

This guarantee is limited to the 14 Font objects exposed in this class. In particular, using the usual mechanism to load a font which happens to be named "Symbol" does not, by itself, guarantee compabitility with the Base 14 font "Symbol".

The Font objects exposed by this package are suitable for CSS selection. That is, they can be added to CSS20FontSets, and selected by the usual CSS attributes. For each font, we indicate its CSS family name (the other characteristics are obvious).

The Font objects exposed by this package behave as if they had a Unicode 'cmap', which is necessary for layout of text. The details of these cmaps can be found here .

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static Font	courierBold The Courier-Bold font, with CSS family name Courier.
static Font	courierBoldOblique The Courier-BoldOblique font, with CSS family name Courier.
static Font	courierOblique The Courier-Oblique font, with CSS family name Courier.
static Font	courierRegular The Courier font, with CSS family name Courier.
static Font	helveticaBold The Helvetica-Bold font, with CSS family name Helvetica.
static Font	helveticaBoldOblique The Helvetica-BoldOblique font, with CSS family name Helvetica.
static Font	helveticaOblique The Helvetica-Oblique font, with CSS family name Helvetica.
static Font	helveticaRegular The Helvetica font, with CSS family name Helvetica.
static Font	symbol The Symbol font, with CSS family name Symbol.
static Font	timesBold The Times-Bold font, with CSS family name Times.
static Font	timesBoldItalic The Times-BoldItalic font, with CSS family name Times.
static Font	timesItalic The Times-Italic font, with CSS family name Times.
static Font	timesRegular The Times-Roman font, with CSS family name Times.
static Font	zapfDingbats The ZapfDingbats font, with CSS family name ZapfDingbats.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static Font	fromPSName(String name) Return the Base 14 font for name, or null if name is not the name of a Base 14 font.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

courierRegular

public static final Font courierRegular

The Courier font, with CSS family name Courier.

courierBold

public static final Font courierBold

The Courier-Bold font, with CSS family name Courier.

courierOblique

public static final Font courierOblique

The Courier-Oblique font, with CSS family name Courier.

courierBoldOblique

public static final Font courierBoldOblique

The Courier-BoldOblique font, with CSS family name Courier.

helveticaRegular

public static final Font helveticaRegular

The Helvetica font, with CSS family name Helvetica.

helveticaBold

public static final Font helveticaBold

The Helvetica-Bold font, with CSS family name Helvetica.

helveticaOblique

public static final Font helveticaOblique

The Helvetica-Oblique font, with CSS family name Helvetica.

helveticaBoldOblique

public static final Font helveticaBoldOblique

The Helvetica-BoldOblique font, with CSS family name Helvetica.

timesRegular

public static final Font timesRegular

The Times-Roman font, with CSS family name Times.

timesBold

public static final Font timesBold

The Times-Bold font, with CSS family name Times.

timesItalic

public static final Font timesItalic

The Times-Italic font, with CSS family name Times.

timesBoldItalic

public static final Font timesBoldItalic

The Times-BoldItalic font, with CSS family name Times.

symbol

public static final Font symbol

The Symbol font, with CSS family name Symbol.

zapfDingbats

public static final Font zapfDingbats

The ZapfDingbats font, with CSS family name ZapfDingbats.

Method Detail

fromPSName

public static Font fromPSName(String name)

Return the Base 14 font for name, or null if name is not the name of a Base 14 font.