There is a application working with PAX A920 and PAX A910 devices. There is a change request to change the print slip more attractive way. Is there a way to use custom fonts?
I have tried by did not works for me.
try {
printerTester.setFontPath("font/calibri_regular.ttf");
}catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
Existing application font sizes changed by
printerTester.fontSet(EFontTypeAscii.FONT_8_16, EFontTypeExtCode.FONT_16_16);
Appreciate any help
Printing on these devices is usually done using only the fonts that the printer has. And most printers only support one type of font.
This is because performance can be ensured and resources can be saved.
If you want to decorate the printed content, create a graphic image of the content yourself and print it.
Maybe, your device specs or SDK has information to help you do that.
Please examine these materials carefully.
Even if you don't have that information, most of them should have the ability to print graphics, so try to create your own based on those specifications.
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I'm trying to generate an xsl to be printed in a pre-printed sheet which works fine.
Now i want to give the user a better previsualization (in the pdf screen version) adding a background image which emulates the "pre-printed" stuf on the sheet to give the user a "context" of what is he printing.
The question is: Is there any way I can set a background image in xsl (using apache fop) visible only in pdf but not in the printed version of it?
Thank you all for reading or givin any advice.
Although as the comments state, you can't have content in the PDF that does not come out in a physical printed copy, here is one possible work around for you. Depending on how your users are ultimately going to be using FOP for PDF rendering and how your a driving the work flow, it's possible to pass a parameter into an xslt file before the transofrmation phase is run, so potentially, you could do a dual rendering of the same PDF, one that is presented to the user where the background image is enabled, and one that gets printed, you could just set a variable similar to how they do in this Example, and call it something like $isPreview, and just use a simple if or choose statement to check for 'Y' or 'N'.
Since you are sending to a printer, you may even want to take advantage of FOP's ability to generate to Postscript rather than PDF, I've used this feature quite extensively for print documents using FOP while also producing a PDF copy for electronic delivery via email or hosted services, and I've yet to find any discrepancy between the PDF rendering and what is printed after sending a rendered postscript file, so it should work well for you as well.
As I said, this is not truly a solution to your problem as you've presented it, but as a work around, it could get you the desired results if your clever about how you implement it.
I don;t think the statement that it is not possible is true, I am just not sure how to create such a PDF with FOP. Certainly you can add an image field. One would use a button field and place the image in the button. Then you would set the properties of that button to not print (printable false).
PDF support images in fields: https://answers.acrobatusers.com/adding-image-field-form-q41825.aspx
RenderX supports PDF Form fields but I do not see where they support an image inside the button, only text: http://www.renderx.com/reference.html#PDF%20Forms. But they do support setting a field to "printable".
I own a sports apparel company and I'm looking to have an applet built that will allow customers to see how their team names will look in certain colors on jerseys. Below you can see the final result of a competitor site's Flash applet where text is rendered on 2D surfaces/images.
My requirements: I need users to be able to set the font, primary text color, outline text color, and text style (arched or straight).
So my question-- Is this sort of text rendering possible with only Javascript/PHP?
If so, what limitations do you for see? I've been told the arching and outline text color may be issues. I've also been told that I may have to upload library files to a server where the actual rendering may take place.
If not, what scripting would you guys recommend? I'm trying to stay away from Flash because it's slow and costly.
I'll be passing this onto our developers so please feel free to be as detailed as possible. I figure'd I'd save them some leg work!
Thank you!
Depending on how complex you want your graphics to be, html5 drawing abilities could be used. Check Raphaël library, for instance, webGL/canvas renderers already have a lot of features in modern browsers.
As of the solution with server rendering, it's also possible with gd2(php), but imho that would be less convenient, at least try something different from php (btw, what's your backend running on?)
Your competitor's solution with java applet honestly seems the easiest, except that it requires jre, which few people are eager to install =)
That's kind-of a high level question, but yes you can definitely use javascript for it.
If there's a problem with getting characters to look right, you can always save each letter as a separate image and have javascript place them next to each other in preview. I'd try to see how close you could get with the existing fonts first.
Layering the text: one color large font, then a different color smaller font will give you the outline effect your looking for.
I'm printing labels with a Zebra printer using Java by sending ZPL II commands. I want to show a preview of the label before sending it to the printer.
Rather than trying to send fonts to the printer, I'd like to use the built in fonts.
I can see a list of the fonts on page 60 of the programming guide volume 2. There are 15 of them, each labeled with a single letter and no reference to the name of an equivalent screen font.
I can generate an image to display of the barcode, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to display the text appropriately because outside of the OCR fonts, I don't know of an equivalent font to leverage on-screen.
I haven't found any documentation that lists them at Zebra's website, and my searching is only returning results on how to send screen fonts to the printer (which looks complex enough for me to want to avoid at this point).
Does anybody know where I can get the fonts, or would you be able to provide me with a list of (hopefully free) equivalents?
I took a screenshot of the fonts displayed in the manual for reference.
After much research, I discovered that the fonts Zebra uses are tightly protected because of licensing.
Contacting Zebra about obtaining a license for the fonts is your only option.
The alternative I'm using for now is to preview the label with a free-to-distribute monospaced true-type font (which I haven't yet selected). The document I linked in my question provides size and spacing information for the built-in fonts so I can emulate as close as possible.
The Zebra fonts, except 0, are all bit mapped, fixed width fonts.
Courier should give you a reasonable approximation.
Just scale them using the table in the Zebra manual.
zpl-zbl2-pm-en.pdf
In case anyone stumbles upon this question.
You can generate a label preview using http://labelary.com/ API.
Hey I'm new to netbeans and I noticed a lot of applications (from textbooks) have a default style/appearance to their controls (buttons etc) as shown below.
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the appearance when I'm creating a GUI is just the standard windows xp or 7 button style. Is there a way to change this to the style shown in the image above?
Here is the appearance I am currently getting:
(source: iforce.co.nz)
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Thanks in advance.
Yes, you can give Swing a Windows like look and feel with the following code:
try{
UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
}
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("UIManager Exception : "+e);
}
NetBeans will automatically choose a Look and Feel depending on your JDK and operating system. NB generated some code to set the L&F when you created the JFrame which made everything look like Windows components. If you want to change the L&F, look at the source for your JFrame and look for a collapsed bit of code that says something like "Look and feel setting code." If you expand it you can change it as you like, or even delete it, which will cause it to simply use the default L&F ("Metal"), which is the one in your picture. Bear in mind that you really shouldn't really just delete generated code, but I'm just trying to make a point here. If you're new to swing in general, I'd recommend writing some applications by hand, and they should just use the "Metal" L&F by default. This will allow you to get comfortable with working with swing. See here for more information.
See the nested layout example for code that offers a combo containing the available PLAFs, and allows the user to change the PLAF at run-time.
You can add Look and Feels. There are some free great looking ones which can be downloaded freely. If you only want Windows look and feel you can just add
try{
UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
}
catch(Exception e){
e.printStacktrace();
}
Hope this answers your question.
Since OS X supports the "natural scrolling", my applications works wrong. The natural scrolling is made for scroll panes, which I really like. But, when I want to zoom in/out, it works wrong. So, what I want to do is check the scroll method for OS X.
If it is "natural" I'll take the opposite of the scroll values from MouseWheelEvent.getWheelRotation() to make my zoom in/out behavior feel correct.
So, in short: How to know if OS X uses natural scrolling or not?
Found a solution.
First, you need a library to read .plist files. I used this one.
Than you can easily read in the GlobalPreferneces.plist (checked with fseventer which file is changed when changing the scroll option) to find out which kind of scrolling is enabled like this:
try {
File globalPref = new File(System.getProperty("user.home") + "/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist");
NSDictionary dict = (NSDictionary)PropertyListParser.parse(globalPref);
NSNumber pref = (NSNumber)dict.objectForKey("com.apple.swipescrolldirection");
if(pref.boolValue()) {
//natural scrolling is enabled
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Faild to parse plist: " + ex.getMessage());
}
Take a look at Mike Swingler's answer on the java-dev mailing list. There is a whole thread about it.
As Apple has dropped Java, I don't think that there is built in method to detect if natural scrolling is enabled. However, you could read in in the .plist files for configuring mouse/touchpad behaviour (which is a basic xml file) and look for the property to enable natural scrolling is set to true or false.
You can find the required .plist files here:
User/Library/Preferences/ <- This folder is hidden in Lion!
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist
Edit:
You can't read in a plist file with the standard Java Framework, as since Mac OS 10.4 all .plists are saved in binary format. See my other answer for a correct solution.