com.lowagie.text.pdf

Class FontSelector

java.lang.Object

com.lowagie.text.pdf.FontSelector

public class FontSelector
extends java.lang.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

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected java.util.ArrayList	fonts

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
FontSelector()

Method Summary

Methods

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

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

fonts

protected java.util.ArrayList fonts

Constructor Detail

FontSelector

public FontSelector()

Method Detail

addFont

public void addFont(Font font)

Adds a Font to be searched for valid characters.

Parameters:

font - the Font

process

public Phrase process(java.lang.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