iTextSharp + CreateFont / BaseFont + MICR question

Question

_{Thursday, July 3, 2008 11:05 AM}

New to iTextSharp, having trouble getting a specific, non standard system font to print.  I'm writing a web app to generate a PDF file for check printing for our office.  I can access my MICR font and write out in the font using this code.

iTextSharp.text.Font micrfont = iTextSharp.text.FontFactory.GetFont("c:\\windows\\fonts\\MCR_____.TTF", 18);
document.Add(new iTextSharp.text.Paragraph(new iTextSharp.text.Chunk("123456789 ", micrfont)));

The problem I face, though, is the lack of positioning options when using the "chunk". What I am trying to do is use the ContentByte to write out to a specific X,Y coordinate on the page...like this.

PdfContentByte cb = writer.DirectContent;
cb.BeginText(); 
BaseFont mybf = BaseFont.CreateFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
cb.SetFontAndSize(mybf, 12);
cb.SetTextMatrix(100, 100);
cb.ShowText("123456789");    

So my question is does anyone know how I can set the mybf BaseFont in line 3 of the above code snippet to equal the MICR font from line 1 of the first code snippet?

Thanks in advance.     

All replies (1)

_{Thursday, July 3, 2008 11:17 AM ✅Answered}

 Got it, this does the ticket.

BaseFont bMicr = BaseFont.CreateFont("c:\\windows\\fonts\\MCR_____.TTF", BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
           iTextSharp.text.Font font = new iTextSharp.text.Font(bMicr, 12);
           cb.SetFontAndSize(bMicr, 8);
           cb.SetTextMatrix(1, 670);
           cb.ShowText("123456789");