rdkit.sping.PDF.pdfmetrics module

This contains pre-canned text metrics for the PDFgen package, and may also be used for any other PIDDLE back ends or packages which use the standard Type 1 postscript fonts.

Its main function is to let you work out the width of strings; it exposes a single function, stringwidth(text, fontname), which works out the width of a string in the given font. This is an integer defined in em-square units - each character is defined in a 1000 x 1000 box called the em-square - for a 1-point high character. So to convert to points, multiply by 1000 and then by point size.

The AFM loading stuff worked for me but is not being heavily tested, as pre-canning the widths for the standard 14 fonts in Acrobat Reader is so much more useful. One could easily extend it to get the exact bounding box for each characterm useful for kerning.

The ascent_descent attribute of the module is a dictionary mapping font names (with the proper Postscript capitalisation) to ascents and descents. I ought to sort out the fontname case issue and the resolution of PIDDLE fonts to Postscript font names within this module, but have not yet done so.

13th June 1999

class rdkit.sping.PDF.pdfmetrics.FontCache

Bases: object

Loads and caches font width information on demand. Font names converted to lower case for indexing. Public interface is stringwidth

getfont(fontname)

loadfont(fontname)

status()

stringwidth(text, font)

rdkit.sping.PDF.pdfmetrics.parseAFMfile(filename)

Returns an array holding the widths of all characters in the font. Ultra-crude parser