org.pentaho.reporting.libraries.fonts.registry

Interface FontRegistry

public interface FontRegistry

Creation-Date: 16.12.2005, 20:11:11

Author: Thomas Morgner

Method Summary
FontMetricsFactory	createMetricsFactory() Creates a new font metrics factory.
String[]	getAllRegisteredFamilies()
FontFamily	getFontFamily(String name) Tries to find a font family with the given name, looking through all alternative font names if neccessary.
String[]	getRegisteredFamilies()
FontCache	getSecondLevelCache()
void	initialize()

Method Detail

createMetricsFactory

public FontMetricsFactory createMetricsFactory()

Creates a new font metrics factory. That factory is specific to a certain font registry and is not required to handle font records from foreign font registries. A font metrics factory should never be used on its own. It should be embedded into and used by a FontStorage implementation.

Returns:

getAllRegisteredFamilies

public String[] getAllRegisteredFamilies()

getFontFamily

public FontFamily getFontFamily(String name)

Tries to find a font family with the given name, looking through all alternative font names if neccessary.

Parameters: name

Returns: the font family or null, if there is no such family.

getRegisteredFamilies

public String[] getRegisteredFamilies()

getSecondLevelCache

public FontCache getSecondLevelCache()

initialize

public void initialize()