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DynaPDF.SetFieldFont
Sets or changes the font of a form field.
| Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
| DynaPDF | 5.1 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
MBS( "DynaPDF.SetFieldFont"; PDF; Field; Name { ; Style; Size; Embed; CodePage } ) More
Parameters
| Parameter | Description | Example | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|
| The PDF reference returned from DynaPDF.New. | |||
| Field | The field index or field name. | "FirstName" | |
| Name | Font name for new font to set or empty text to deactivate current font. | "Arial" | |
| Style | Font style value. Can be a combination of values 1 for italic, 2 for bold, 4 for underlined and 8 for striked. |
3 | Optional |
| Size | Font size in points. | 12 | Optional |
| Embed | Whether to embed font in PDF. Can be 1 to embed or 0 to not embed. Default is 1 since version 12.3. |
1 | Optional |
| CodePage | The code page to use. Code page can be 1250, 1251, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255, 1256, 1257, 1258, 8859-2, 8859-3, 8859-4, 8859-5, 8859-6, 8859-7, 8859-8, 8859-9, 8859-10, 8859-13, 8859-14, 8859-15, 8859-16, Symbol, 437, 737, 775, 850, 852, 855, 857, 860, 861, 862, 863, 864, 865, 866, 869, 874, Unicode. Default is unicode since v12.3, but was 1252 for Windows ANSI before. |
"Unicode" | Optional |
Result
Returns OK or error.
Description
Sets or changes the font of a form field.Form fields support natively only the code pages 1252 and MacRoman.
See dynapdf_help manual for details.
You need to set CMap directory first with DynaPDF.SetCMapDir.
See also SetFieldFont function in DynaPDF manual.
Examples
Set unicode font:
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS( "DynaPDF.SetCMapDir"; $pdf; "/Users/cs/Desktop/CMap"; "Recursive" ) ]
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS( "DynaPDF.SetFieldFont"; $pdf; "Test"; "Arial"; 0; 12; 1; "Unicode") ]
Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("DynaPDF.SetTextFieldValue"; $pdf; "Test"; "你好世界"; ""; "Left") ]
See also
- DynaPDF.GetFieldCount
- DynaPDF.New
- DynaPDF.SetFieldBBox
- DynaPDF.SetFieldColor
- DynaPDF.SetFieldFlags
- DynaPDF.SetFieldFontEx
- DynaPDF.SetFieldFontSize
- DynaPDF.SetFieldIndex
- DynaPDF.SetTextFieldValue
- DynaPDF.SetUseStdFonts
Release notes
- Version 12.3
- Changed DynaPDF.SetFont, DynaPDF.SetFieldFont, DynaPDF.SetFontEx and DynaPDF.Table.SetFont to use unicode as default code page.
- Version 12.0
- Changed DynaPDF.SetFont, DynaPDF.Table.SetFont, DynaPDF.SetFontEx, DynaPDF.ChangeFontEx, DynaPDF.SetFieldFont and DynaPDF.SetBookmarkStyle functions to accept styles as text.
Blog Entries
- MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 12.3pr1
- MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 11.6pr2
- MBS FileMaker Plugin 5.1 for OS X/Windows
- MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 5.1pr2
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Created 19th March 2015, last changed 17th July 2022
