Load one of the 14 PDF standard fonts

Wraps FPDFText_LoadStandardFont. The 14 standard fonts (Helvetica / Times-Roman / Courier in their four weight+style variants, plus Symbol and ZapfDingbats) are required by the PDF spec to be supported by every reader, so no font bytes need to be embedded.

Usage

pdf_font_load_standard(doc, name)

Arguments

doc

A pdfium_doc opened with readwrite = TRUE.

name

Character scalar — one of the 14 standard font names listed in the Standard fonts section below.

Value

A pdfium_font handle. Pass it as the font argument of pdf_text_new().

Details

For arbitrary TrueType / Type1 fonts, use pdf_font_load().

Standard fonts

"Helvetica", "Helvetica-Bold", "Helvetica-Oblique", "Helvetica-BoldOblique", "Times-Roman", "Times-Bold", "Times-Italic", "Times-BoldItalic", "Courier", "Courier-Bold", "Courier-Oblique", "Courier-BoldOblique", "Symbol", "ZapfDingbats".

See also

pdf_font_load(), pdf_text_new(), pdf_font_close().

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
doc <- pdf_doc_new()
page <- pdf_page_new(doc, width = 612, height = 792)
font <- pdf_font_load_standard(doc, "Times-Italic")
pdf_text_new(page, "hello", font = font, font_size = 24,
             x = 72, y = 720)
pdf_save(doc, tempfile(fileext = ".pdf"))
} # }