Using drop caps on a JLabel

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Code

@Override protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
  Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g.create();
  g2.setPaint(getBackground());
  g2.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());

  Insets i = getInsets();
  float x0 = i.left;
  float y0 = i.top;

  Font font = getFont();
  String txt = getText();

  AttributedString as = new AttributedString(txt.substring(1));
  as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FONT, font);
  AttributedCharacterIterator aci = as.getIterator();
  FontRenderContext frc = g2.getFontRenderContext();

  Shape shape = new TextLayout(txt.substring(0, 1), font, frc).getOutline(null);

  AffineTransform at1 = AffineTransform.getScaleInstance(5d, 5d);
  Shape s1 = at1.createTransformedShape(shape);
  Rectangle r = s1.getBounds();
  r.grow(6, 2);
  int rw = r.width;
  int rh = r.height;

  AffineTransform at2 = AffineTransform.getTranslateInstance(x0, y0+rh);
  Shape s2 = at2.createTransformedShape(s1);
  g2.setPaint(getForeground());
  g2.fill(s2);

  float x = x0 + rw;
  float y = y0;
  int w0 = getWidth() - i.left - i.right;
  int w = w0 - rw;
  LineBreakMeasurer lbm = new LineBreakMeasurer(aci, frc);
  while(lbm.getPosition() < aci.getEndIndex()) {
    TextLayout tl = lbm.nextLayout(w);
    tl.draw(g2, x, y + tl.getAscent());
    y += tl.getDescent() + tl.getLeading() + tl.getAscent();
    if(y0+rh < y) {
      x = x0;
      w = w0;
    }
  }
  g2.dispose();
}

References

• Using drop caps on a JLabel(Japanese)