Package 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 Details

    • 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 Details

    • 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.