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# encoding: utf-8
#
# The PDF format has some built-in font support. If you want to use other fonts
# in Prawn you need to embed the font file.
#
# Doing this for a single font is extremely simple. Remember the Styling font
# example? Another use of the <code>font</code> method is to provide a font file
# path and the font will be embedded in the document and set as the current
# font.
#
# This is reasonable if a font is used only once, but, if a font used several
# times, providing the path each time it is used becomes cumbersome. The example
# on the next page shows a better way to deal with fonts which are used several
# times in a document.
#
require File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),
                                   %w[.. example_helper]))

filename = File.basename(__FILE__).gsub('.rb', '.pdf')
Prawn::Example.generate(filename) do
  # Using a TTF font file
  font("#{Prawn::DATADIR}/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf") do
    text "Written with the DejaVu Sans TTF font."
  end
  move_down 20
  
  text "Written with the default font."
  move_down 20
  
  # Using an DFONT font file
  font("#{Prawn::DATADIR}/fonts/Panic+Sans.dfont") do
    text "Written with the Panic Sans DFONT font"
  end
  move_down 20

  text "Written with the default font once more."
end

Version data entries

1 entries across 1 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
prawn-1.0.0	manual/text/single_usage.rb