FontSpec

The FontSpec class represents a specification for a font. The constructor is accessible from scripts.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
family	string	Read only. The font family; e.g., Arial, New Times Roman, SansSerif, etc.
style	Font Style Type	Read Only. The derived style of the font, plain, bold, italic or bold/italic. Note that fonts like Arial Bold that have an inherent style have this field set to plain.
size	number or AUTOSIZE	Read Only. The point size of the font. Can be set to AUTOSIZE when the entityTitleFont field of the Document is involved.
ascent	number	Read only. The ascent of the font. If you construct a FontSpec at runtime, you must call the calcFont method in a Document instance to make this field valid.
descent	number	Read only. The descent of the font. If you construct a FontSpec at runtime, you must call the calcFont method in a Document instance to make this field valid.
uppercaseHeight	number	Read only. The maximum ascent of the letters X, O, and M of the font. If you construct a FontSpec at runtime, you must call the calcFont method in a Document instance to make this field valid.

Methods

init( family, style, size )

Creates a new FontSpec with the given family, style and size.

Constants

Font Style Type

PLAIN

Indicates a style of plain.

BOLD

Indicates a style of bold. This can be or’ed with ITALIC.

ITALIC

Indicates a style of italic. This can be or’ed with BOLD

Font Size Type

AUTOSIZE

Indicates the size should be determined algorithmically. Only used for the entityTitleFont field of Document.