Method Detail

• getName

  String getName()

  Returns the name of this font, either the PostScript "BaseName" or the Type 3 "Name".

• getFontDescriptor

  PDFontDescriptor getFontDescriptor()

  Returns the font descriptor, may be null.

• getFontMatrix

  Matrix getFontMatrix()

  Returns the font matrix, which represents the transformation from glyph space to text space.

• getBoundingBox

  BoundingBox getBoundingBox()
                             throws IOException

  Returns the font's bounding box.

  Throws:

  IOException

• getPositionVector

  Vector getPositionVector(int code)

  Returns the position vector (v), in text space, for the given character. This represents the position of vertical origin relative to horizontal origin, for horizontal writing it will always be (0, 0). For vertical writing both x and y are set.

  Parameters:

  code - character code

  Returns:

  position vector

• getHeight

  @Deprecated
  float getHeight(int code)
                  throws IOException

  Deprecated. Use getBoundingBox().getHeight() instead.
  Returns the height of the given character, in glyph space. This can be expensive to calculate. Results are only approximate.

  Warning: This method is deprecated in PDFBox 2.0 because there is no meaningful value which it can return. The getWidth(int) method returns the advance width of a glyph, but there is no corresponding advance height. The logical height of a character is the same for every character in a font, so if you want that, retrieve the font bbox's height. Otherwise if you want the visual bounds of the glyph then call getPath(..) on the appropriate PDFont subclass to retrieve the glyph outline as a GeneralPath.

  Parameters:

  code - character code

  Throws:

  IOException

• getWidth

  float getWidth(int code)
                 throws IOException

  Returns the advance width of the given character, in glyph space.

  If you want the visual bounds of the glyph then call getPath(..) on the appropriate PDFont subclass to retrieve the glyph outline as a GeneralPath instead.

  Parameters:

  code - character code

  Throws:

  IOException

• getWidthFromFont

  float getWidthFromFont(int code)
                         throws IOException

  Returns the width of a glyph in the embedded font file.

  Parameters:

  code - character code

  Returns:

  width in glyph space

  Throws:

  IOException - if the font could not be read

• isEmbedded

  boolean isEmbedded()

  Returns true if the font file is embedded in the PDF.

• isDamaged

  boolean isDamaged()

  Returns true if the embedded font file is damaged.

• getAverageFontWidth

  float getAverageFontWidth()

  This will get the average font width for all characters.

  Returns:

  The width is in 1000 unit of text space, ie 333 or 777