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Class FontSelector

public class FontSelector extends Object

Selects the appropriate fonts that contain the glyphs needed to render text correctly. The fonts are checked in order until the character is found.

The built in fonts "Symbol" and "ZapfDingbats", if used, have a special encoding to allow the characters to be referred by Unicode.

Author: Paulo Soares (psoares@consiste.pt)

Field Summary
protected ArrayList	fonts

Method Summary
void	addFont(Font font) Adds a `Font` to be searched for valid characters.
Phrase	process(String text) Process the text so that it will render with a combination of fonts if needed.

Field Detail

protected ArrayList fonts

public void addFont(Font font)

Adds a Font to be searched for valid characters.

Parameters: font the Font

public Phrase process(String text)

Process the text so that it will render with a combination of fonts if needed.

Parameters: text the text

Returns: a Phrase with one or more chunks