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IFXPDFFactory – part 8 – PDF fonts and text

July 30th, 2013

Support for the base 14 PDF fonts has been implemented. Also the text drawing methods have been implemented.

The base class for all fonts is IFXPDFBaseFont. The standard 14 PDF fonts are implemented through the IFXPDFFont class, which inherits from IFXPDFBaseFont. The supported fonts are: Helvetica, Helvetica Bold, Helvetica Italic, Helvetica Bold-Italic, Courier, Courier Bold, Courier Italic, Courier Bold-Italic, Times Roman, Times Roman Bold, Times Roman Italic, Times Roman Bold-Italic, ZapfDingbats and Symbol.