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liudr
Export text to .PDF file problem with the .PDF lib
Aug 14th, 2009, 10:03am  
I have some trouble getting text to show up on exported .PDF files. They appear as solid color blocks. I also searched the .PDF file and couldn't find the text from the search function. Apparently the text was turned into images. I'm ok with it. But how do I fix this? Thanks. The following is the code:
   beginRecord(PDF,"output.pdf");
   myFont=loadFont("ArialMT-16.vlw");
   textFont(myFont,16);
   text(blah, x,y);
   endRecord();
How do I attach an image to this topic?  Embarrassed

BTW, I'm using the Processing's default render. When I use OPENGL, it works but very slowly considering my laptop is a C2D with 4GB ram and the code is nothing fancy. I did get the text but not the right size, slightly smaller than the textWidth() reports, which I use to draw a border for the text.
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Cedric
Re: Export text to .PDF file problem with the .PDF lib
Reply #1 - Aug 15th, 2009, 7:36am  
similar problem http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/?num=1203516711
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liudr
Re: Export text to .PDF file problem with the .PDF lib
Reply #2 - Aug 15th, 2009, 4:26pm  
Thanks Cetric. The solution seems more complicated than what I wanted. I'll stick with save() to save as .PNG since it's not too bad at all.
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JohnG
Re: Export text to .PDF file problem with the .PDF lib
Reply #3 - Aug 16th, 2009, 12:05pm  
You could try hint(ENABLE_NATIVE_FONTS); together with createFont(...) instead of loadFont().
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