| • | Font( [compound fontname], [Encoding], [Embed], [translate] ) => specify the wanted font according to Xbase syntax, nominal point size followed by dot followed by font name. If none provided defaults to “10.Courier New”, with WinAnsiEncoding. Basic fonts are included in the Xbase PDF Class, but with version 3, any True Type font can be used to create your document, (see FontDef bellow), also any size can be used, there is no limitation to maximum size or the number of fonts used in one document. The existing fonts can be combined with Bold and or Italic, and “Underscore” can be added to any combination, providing underlining of text. |
Compound fontname (character) : is the font compound name, point size, followed by font family name. Valid fonts are Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman, Helvetica, Tahoma, Verdana, Symbols and ZapfDingbats fonts, combined to Bold, Italic or Bold Italic. Underscore can be added to any of the available fonts, like Font( “10.Arial Underscore” ) or Font( “12.Helvetica Bold Underscore”). Other fonts might be used using the FontDef method.
Available fonts are (see Fonts.PDF) :
Arial
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Arial Bold
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Arial Bold Italic
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Arial Italic
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Courier New
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Courier New Bold
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Courier New Bold Italic
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Courier New Italic
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Helvetica
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Helvetica Bold
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Helvetica Bold Italic
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Helvetica Italic
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Symbol
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α ε ι ο υ Α Ε Ι Ο Υ - 1 2 3 4 5
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Tahoma
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Tahoma Bold
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Times New Roman
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Times New Roman Bold Italic
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Times New Roman Italic
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Times New Roman Bold
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Verdana
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Verdana Bold
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Verdana Bold Italic
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a e i o u A E I O U - 1 2 3 4 5
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Verdana Italic
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ZapfDingbats
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Encoding (character) : This parameter can be used to specify different encoding for the chosen font during the creation of the PDF file, one of the following values should be used :
Encoding
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Comments
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WinAnsiEncoding
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Normal Windows encoding
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MacRomanEncoding
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Mac Roman encoding
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PDFDocEncoding
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PDF Doc encoding
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ISO8859_2
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(Latin 2) Slavic languages of Central Europe
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ISO8859_3
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(Latin 3) Esperanto, Maltese
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ISO8859_4
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(Latin 4) Estonian, Baltic Languages, Greelandic
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ISO8859_5
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Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian
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ISO8859_6
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Arabic
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ISO8859_7
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Modern Greek
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ISO8859_8
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Hebrew
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ISO8859_9
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(Latin 5) Western Europe, Turkish
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ISO8859_10
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(Latin 6) Nordic languages
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ISO8859_11
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Thai Language
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ISO8859_13
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(Latin 7) Baltic languages
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ISO8859_14
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(Latin 8) Celtic
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ISO8859_15
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(Latin 9) Adds EURO as well as French, Finish to Latin 1
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ISO8859_16
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(Latin 10) Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian
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CP1250
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Central Europe
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CP1251
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Cyrillic
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CP1253
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Greek
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CP1254
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Turkish
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CP1255
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Hebrew
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CP1256
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Arabic
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CP1257
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Baltic
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CP1258
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Vietnam
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Embed (logical) : specify if the font file is to be embedded in the document, or not. Embedding the font makes the document larger in size, but assures that the font will be respected, if not embedded, the reader may chose a similar font for displaying the document. This option is valid only for the PDF document to be created.
Examples : GraPdf:Font( “10.Arial” ) will print with Arial fonts using 10 point size characters like
=> abcdefABCDEF12345.
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