/* * java-gnome, a UI library for writing GTK and GNOME programs from Java! * * Copyright © 2008-2010 Operational Dynamics Consulting, Pty Ltd * * The code in this file, and the program it is a part of, is made available * to you by its authors as open source software: you can redistribute it * and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version * 2 ("GPL") as published by the Free Software Foundation. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GPL for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GPL along with this program. If not, * see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. The authors of this program may be * contacted through http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/. * * Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making * a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of * the GPL cover the whole combination. As a special exception (the * "Claspath Exception"), the copyright holders of this library give you * permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an * executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, * and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your * choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, * the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent * module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If * you modify this library, you may extend the Classpath Exception to your * version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not * wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. */ package org.freedesktop.cairo; import java.io.IOException; /** * A Surface that will be rendered to a file in the Portable Document Format. * *

* You specify the size of a PdfSurface in points, and all subsequent * operations on a Context based on this Surface will likewise be in points. * If you are used to using Cairo to draw to screen where a device unit equals * a pixel, be aware that here your a distance of 1.0 is in * points, not pixels. * *

* Cairo's PDF support is still nascent but is improving steadily! Wherever * possible graphics drawn in your Context will be rendered in vector form in * the PDF; when that is not available the PDF backend will fallback to * rendering bitmaps of the desired content. * * @author Andrew Cowie * @since 4.0.10 */ public class PdfSurface extends Surface { protected PdfSurface(long pointer) { super(pointer); } /** * Create a new PdfSurface, supplying the file you want to write to and * the size of the page you are creating. The width and * height parameters are specified in points, where 1 * point equals 1/72nd of an inch. * *

* A4 paper is 210mm x 297mm, which works out as about: * *

     * surface = new PdfSurface("output.pdf", 595.275, 841.889);
     * 
* * more generally, you can use get paper size information via GTK's * printing support using [org.gnome.gtk] PaperSize's * {@link org.gnome.gtk.PaperSize#getWidth(org.gnome.gtk.Unit) getWidth()} * and {@link org.gnome.gtk.PaperSize#getHeight(org.gnome.gtk.Unit) * getHeight()} methods, for example: * *
     * paper = PaperSize.getDefault();
     * width = paper.getWidth(Unit.POINTS);
     * height = paper.getHeight(Unit.POINTS);
     * 
     * surface = new PdfSurface("output.pdf", width, height);
     * 
* * saving you having to worry about just how big such paper really is. * * @throws IOException * If you do not have write permissions on the given file. * @since 4.0.10 */ public PdfSurface(String filename, double width, double height) throws IOException { super(CairoSurface.createSurfacePdf(filename, width, height)); final Status status; status = CairoSurface.status(this); if (status == Status.WRITE_ERROR) { throw new IOException("Cairo reports it cannot open " + filename + " for writing"); } checkStatus(status); } public void showPage() { CairoSurface.showPage(this); checkStatus(); } public void copyPage() { CairoSurface.copyPage(this); checkStatus(); } }