Load a font from CFF file | Java

Get a closer look on how to load font in particulary CenturyGothic placed in the file CenturyGothic.cff.

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If you did not read the Aspose.Font loading fundamentals, go to How to load fonts? page.

First let’s notify the statements you will need to use:

    package com.aspose.font;

    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.nio.file.Files;
    import java.nio.file.Paths;

    import com.aspose.font.ByteContentStreamSource;
    import com.aspose.font.FileSystemStreamSource;
    import com.aspose.font.Font;
    import com.aspose.font.FontDefinition;
    import com.aspose.font.FontFileDefinition;
    import com.aspose.font.FontType;

Loading from the file using java.io.File object

Follow the algorithm to fulfill the font loading:

1. Construct path to the file.
2. Initiate FontDefiniton object passing CFF as FontType value.
3. Get automatically calculated value fileExtension.
4. Load the font.

    // Construct path to the file.
    String fontPath = Paths.get(getDataDir(), "CenturyGothic.cff").toString();
	
    // Initialize FontDefinition object passing CFF as FontType value and using FontFileDefinition
    FontFileDefinition fileDef = new FontFileDefinition(new File(fontPath));

    // Based on FileInfo object, fileExtension value is calculated automatically from FileInfo fields.
    FontDefinition fontDef = new FontDefinition(FontType.CFF, fileDef);

    // Load the font
    Font font = Font.open(fontDef);

Font loading with the byte[] type variable and with using ByteContentStreamSource type object

To load font this way, you need to take the following steps:

1. Construct path to the file.
2. Initialize FontDefiniton object passing CFF as FontType value, cff as fileExtension value, and ByteContentStreamSource object based on fontBytes array.
3. Load the font.

    // Construct path to the file
    String fontPath = Paths.get(getDataDir(), "CenturyGothic.cff").toString();

    // Load font binary data into byte array
    byte[] fontBytes = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(fontPath));

    // Initialize FontDefinition object  passing CFF as FontType value, "cff" as fileExtension value, 
    // and ByteContentStreamSource object based on fontBytes array
    FontDefinition fontDef = new FontDefinition(FontType.CFF, "ttf", new ByteContentStreamSource(fontBytes));

    // Load the font
    Font font = Font.open(fontDef);

More examples on how to use Aspose.Font are in Aspose.Font.Examples.sln solution, in the java-examples of the Aspose.Font Documentation.