Font Creation from TTF file in JDK 1.3

[Sameer]

Hello,

In JDK1.5.0 there is a static method in Font class having syntax

Font.createFont(int fontFormat, File fontFile).

This let you create a font using the supplied font file.
Thus it is not necessary whether a particular font is installed on the
machine, we can use font created by this method(?).

The method available previously (in 1.3) has the syntax:

Font.createFont(int fontFormat, InputStream fontStream).

Can we use the functionality of JDK 1.5 in JDK 1.3?
i.e Can we get the InputStream from the TTF file and pass it to the
function to work it like the function available in 1.5 and create a new
Font?

If it is possible, how to do it?
Please help me ASAP.
-Sameer

 

[Thomas Weidenfeller]

Can we use the functionality of JDK 1.5 in JDK 1.3?
i.e Can we get the InputStream from the TTF file and pass it to the
function to work it like the function available in 1.5 and create a new
Font?

Yes. Why didn't you just try it?

Please help me ASAP.

ASAP? But you couldn't be bothered to write ten lines of code to try it?

/Thomas

 

[Sameer]

Thank you very much for this 'Brain Washing'. I will definately try to
write the code for the same. But I am not confident whether it will
work or not so I want assistance from expert peoples like you and I
just tried whether anybody is kind enough to give me lines for the
same.
-Sameer

 

[Viator]

Here are the lines!
try{
Font font=Font.createFont(yourFormat,new
FileInputStream(yourFontFile));
}catch(Exception e){
playWith(e);
}//end try catch

 

[Sameer]

Dear Sir,
I created the font using the method createFont using JDK1.3 and apply
it to a JTextField, but the text displayed is toooo small. Why is it
so? The method font.deriveFont(int) is used and given a big value...
still the text was not displaying.
What may be the problem?