Interface FontBoxFont

fontbox/src/main/java/org/apache/fontbox/FontBoxFont.java:30–87

Common interface for all FontBox fonts. @author John Hewson

 * @author John Hewson
 */
public interface FontBoxFont
{
    /**
     * The PostScript name of the font.
     * 
     * @return the postscript of the font or null
     * 
     * @throws IOException if something went wrong when accessing the font data
     */
    String getName() throws IOException;
    
    /**
     * Returns the font's bounding box in PostScript units.
     *
     * @return the bounding box of the font
     * 
     * @throws IOException if something went wrong when accessing the font data
     */
    BoundingBox getFontBBox() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Returns the FontMatrix in PostScript units.
     * 
     * @return the font matrix
     * 
     * @throws IOException if something went wrong when accessing the font data
     */
    List<Number> getFontMatrix() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Returns the path for the character with the given name.
     *
     * @param name PostScript glyph name
     * @return glyph path
     * @throws IOException if the path could not be read
     */
    GeneralPath getPath(String name) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Returns the advance width for the character with the given name.
     *
     * @param name PostScript glyph name
     * @return glyph advance width
     * @throws IOException if the path could not be read
     */
    float getWidth(String name) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Returns true if the font contains the given glyph.
     * 
     * @param name PostScript glyph name
     * 
     * @return true if the font contains a glyph with the given name, otherwise false
     * 
     * @throws IOException if something went wrong when accessing the font data
     */
    boolean hasGlyph(String name) throws IOException;
}