Package org.axsl.font

Interfaces allowing client applications to register, track, and use fonts in a vendor-neutral way.

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Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Font	The Font interface exposes a font resource to the client application.
FontConsumer	FontConsumer provides many of the font-related services that a client application may require, such as font resolution (obtaining a FontUse instance to use), and getting a collection of Font and FontUse instances actually used.
FontOptions	A collection of font options made available to a Font or FontUse implementation to provide information about how the client wants to use the font.
FontServer	FontServer provides some basic system-wide services such as listing available fonts.
FontUse	The FontUse interface exposes a font resource to the client application.

Class Summary

Class	Description
FontUtility	Class containing font-related utility methods.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
Font.Baseline	Enumeration of the various baselines that can be defined in a font.
Font.Complexity	Enumeration of constants to describe the complexity of a font.
Font.Embedding	Enumeration of the types of font embedding.
Font.Format	Enumeration of constants to describe the format of a font.
Font.LineHeightAlgorithm	Enumeration of possible algorithms that could be used to compute the line-height for a given font.
Font.SelectionStrategy	Enumeration of constants needed to describe the various font selection strategies.
Font.Stretch	Enumeration of constants needed to describe the "stretch" value of a font.
Font.Style	Enumeration of constants needed to describe the style of a font.
Font.Variant	Enumeration of constants needed to describe the variant of a font.
Font.Weight	Enumeration of constants needed to describe the weight of a font.
Font.WritingMode	Enumeration of possible writing-modes that a font might have.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
FontException	Exception thrown when an axslFont implementation has a problem.

Package org.axsl.font Description

Interfaces allowing client applications to register, track, and use fonts in a vendor-neutral way. An aXSL client application writes its programs using the aXSL interfaces. It then obtains a concrete vendor-specific implementation of FontServer, and concrete vendor-specific implementations of FontConsumer for each document or other user of font information that it processes. From that point, the client application can request FontUse instances from the appropriate FontConsumer. FontUse and Font instances then provide the client application with various font-related services. The only contact a client application must have with a concrete implementation is the provision of a concrete FontServer and FontConsumer instance(s).