Tutorial

Tutorial

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Credits and Acknowledgements

The portable fonts used in Figue's Symbol class rely on the anti-aliased fonts for Java, courtesy of Bernard Suffrin, Worcester College.

Step by Step

Import the usual figue packages.

import figue.*;
import figue.box.*;
import figue.path.*;

Import the resource package.

import figue.resource.*;

Define an initializer.

FacadeInitializer theParameters = new FacadeInitializer();

Add to the initializer the location of the portable font library.

final URL theCodeBaseUrl = getCodeBase();
theParameters.setPortableFontLibrary(
   new URL(theCodeBaseUrl,
           theCodeBaseUrl + ""));

Pass the initializer to the facade on creation.

_facade = new AWTFacade(theParameters);

Create and keep a reference to a portable font.

_portableFont = _facade.doGetPortableFont(null,
                                          "laurass12",
                                          600,
                                          1.5);

Build a symbol.

theLine.addChild(new Symbol(theBuffer.toString(),
                            _portableFont));

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