Section 13.4 Manipulating Fonts
• Class Font (p. 566) contains methods and constants for manipulating fonts.
• Class Font’s constructor takes three arguments—the font name (p. 567), font style and font size.
• A Font’s font style can be Font.PLAIN, Font.ITALIC or Font.BOLD (each is a static field of class Font). Font styles can be used in combination (e.g., Font.ITALIC + Font.BOLD).
• The font size is measured in points. A point is 1/72 of an inch.
• Graphics method setFont (p. 567) sets the drawing font in which text will be displayed.
• Font method getSize (p. 567) returns the font size in points.
• Font method getName (p. 567) returns the current font name as a string.
• Font method getStyle (p. 569) returns an integer value representing ...
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