FontFromFile.vb
- ''
- '' This code is part of Document Solutions for PDF demos.
- '' Copyright (c) MESCIUS inc. All rights reserved.
- ''
- Imports System.IO
- Imports System.Drawing
- Imports GrapeCity.Documents.Pdf
- Imports GrapeCity.Documents.Text
- Imports GCTEXT = GrapeCity.Documents.Text
- Imports GCDRAW = GrapeCity.Documents.Drawing
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- '' This short sample demonstrates how a Font can be loaded from a file
- '' And used in your code to render text.
- '' The sample relies on font files Gabriola.ttf And timesbi.ttf to exist in the
- '' Resources/Fonts folder.
- ''
- '' NOTE 1: When Font.FromFile() Is used, the actual data Is loaded on demand,
- '' so that usually a Font instance will Not take too much space.
- '' The situation Is different for fonts created using Font.FromArray()
- '' And Font.FromStream() methods - in those cases the whole font Is
- '' immediately loaded into memory. The font will still be parsed
- '' only on demand, but memory consumption Is slightly higher,
- '' so using Font.FromFile() should generally be preferred.
- ''
- '' NOTE 2: When different Font instances (created using any of the static ctors
- '' mentioned above) are used to render text in a PDF, each instance will result
- '' in embedding a separate subset of glyphs even if the glyphs are the same,
- '' because DsPdf has no way of knowing that two different Font instances
- '' represent the same physical font. So either make sure that only one Font instance
- '' Is created for each physical font, Or better yet use the FontCollection class
- '' to add the fonts you need, And specify them via TextFormat.FontName.
- Public Class FontFromFile
- Function CreatePDF(ByVal stream As Stream) As Integer
- Dim gabriola = GCTEXT.Font.FromFile(Path.Combine("Resources", "Fonts", "Gabriola.ttf"))
- If gabriola Is Nothing Then
- Throw New Exception("Could not load font Gabriola")
- End If
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- '' Now that we have our font, use it to render some text:
- Dim tf = New TextFormat() With {.Font = gabriola, .FontSize = 16}
- Dim doc = New GcPdfDocument()
- Dim g = doc.NewPage().Graphics
- g.DrawString($"Sample text drawn with font {gabriola.FontFamilyName}.", tf, New PointF(72, 72))
- '' We can change the font size:
- tf.FontSize += 4
- g.DrawString("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.", tf, New PointF(72, 72 * 2))
- '' We can force DsPdf to emulate bold or italic style with a non-bold (non-italic) font, e.g.:
- tf.FontStyle = GCTEXT.FontStyle.Bold
- g.DrawString("This line prints with the same font, using emulated bold style.", tf, New PointF(72, 72 * 3))
- '' But of course rather than emulated, it is much better to use real bold/italic fonts.
- '' So finally, get a real bold italic font and print a line with it:
- Dim timesbi = GCTEXT.Font.FromFile(Path.Combine("Resources", "Fonts", "timesbi.ttf"))
- If timesbi Is Nothing Then
- Throw New Exception("Could not load font timesbi")
- End If
- tf.Font = timesbi
- tf.FontStyle = GCTEXT.FontStyle.Regular
- g.DrawString($"This line prints with {timesbi.FullFontName}.", tf, New PointF(72, 72 * 4))
- ''
- '' Done:
- doc.Save(stream)
- Return doc.Pages.Count
- End Function
- End Class
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