Use PDF Core Fonts

Acrobat reader supports 14 PDF core fonts. Developers don't need to embed these fonts in any PDF file while working with Aspose.Pdf . These 14 fonts are:

 

• Courier
• Courier-Bold
• Courier-BoldOblique
• Courier-Oblique
• Helvetica
• Helvetica-Bold
• Helvetica-BoldOblique
• Helvetica-Oblique
• Symbol
• Times-Bold
• Times-BoldItalic
• Times-Italic
• Times-Roman
• ZapfDingbats

 

If developers need to use any of these fonts in their PDF files using Aspose.Pdf then only their font name should be assigned as a string to TextInfo.FontName property of the Segment .

 

Note: The default font is Times-Roman.

 

The 14 core fonts are shown in the following figure:

 

 

Note: Symbol and ZapfDingbats are symbol fonts.

 

An example is given below to demonstrate the use of Symbol font.

 

Code Snippet

 

[C#]

 

//Instantiate Pdf instance by calling it empty constructor

Pdf pdf1 = new Pdf();

 

//Create a section in the Pdf object

Section sec1 = pdf1.Sections.Add();

 

//Create a text paragraph inheriting text format settings from the section

Text text1 = new Text(sec1);

 

//Add the text paragraph to the section

sec1.Paragraphs.Add(text1);

 

//Create 1st text segment

Segment s1 = new Segment(((char)183).ToString());

 

//Set the font name to the TextInfo.FontName property of segment

s1.TextInfo.FontName = "Symbol";

 

//Add 1st text segment to the text paragraph

text1.Segments.Add(s1);

 

//Create 2nd text segment

Segment s2 = new Segment(" the first item");

 

//Add 2nd text segment to the text paragraph

text1.Segments.Add(s2);

 

//Save the Pdf

pdf1.Save("Symbol.pdf");

 

[VB.NET]

 

'Instantiate Pdf instance by calling it empty constructor

Dim pdf1 As Pdf = New Pdf()

 

'Create a section in the Pdf object

Dim sec1 As Section = pdf1.Sections.Add()

 

'Create a text paragraph inheriting text format settings from the section

Dim text1 As Aspose.Pdf.Text = New Aspose.Pdf.Text(sec1)

 

'Add the text paragraph to the section

sec1.Paragraphs.Add(text1)

 

'Create 1st text segment

Dim s1 As Segment = New Segment(Microsoft.VisualBasic.ChrW(183).ToString())

 

'Set the font name to the TextInfo.FontName property of segment

s1.TextInfo.FontName = "Symbol"

 

'Add 1st text segment to the text paragraph

text1.Segments.Add(s1)

 

'Create 2nd text segment

Dim s2 As Segment = New Segment(" the first item")

 

'Add 2nd text segment to the text paragraph

text1.Segments.Add(s2)

 

'Save the Pdf

pdf1.Save("Symbol.pdf")

 

[JAVA]

 

//Instantiate Pdf instance by calling its empty constructor

Pdf pdf1 = new Pdf();

 

//Create a new section in the Pdf object

Section sec1 = pdf1.getSections().add();

 

//Create a text paragraph inheriting text format settings from the section

Text text1 = new Text(sec1);

 

//Add the text paragraph to the section

sec1.getParagraphs().add(text1);

 

//Create 1st text segment

Segment s1 = new Segment(text1, String.valueOf((char)183));

 

//Set the font name to the TextInfo.FontName property of segment

s1.getTextInfo().setFontName("Symbol");

 

//Add 1st text segment to the text paragraph

text1.getSegments().add(s1);

 

//Create 2nd text segment

Segment s2 = new Segment(text1, " the first item");

 

//Add 2nd text segment to the text paragraph

text1.getSegments().add(s2);

 

//Save the Pdf

FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File("..."));

pdf1.save(out);

 

[XML]

 

<Pdf xmlns="Aspose.Pdf">

     <Section>

         <Text>

             <Segment FontName="Symbol">·</Segment>

             <Segment>the first item</Segment>

         </Text>

     </Section>

</Pdf>