• NAME
• VERSION
• DESCRIPTION
• SYNOPSIS
• CONSTRUCTOR
• METHODS
  • char_width()
  • get_char_width($codepoint)
  • get_char_name($codepoint)
• AUTHORS
• REPOSITORY
• COPYRIGHT
• LICENSE

NAME

PDF::Font - Base font class for PDF::Create.

VERSION

Version 1.46

DESCRIPTION

Base font class to support font families approved by PDF::Create. This is used in the method init_widths() inside the package PDF::Create::Page.

SYNOPSIS

    use strict; use warnings;
    use PDF::Font;

    my $font = PDF::Font->new('Helvetica');
    my $char_widths = $font->char_width;
    print "Character width: ", $font->get_char_width(ord('A')), "\n";
    print "Character  name: ", $font->get_char_name(ord('A')) , "\n";

CONSTRUCTOR

Expects font_name as the only parameter. It can be one of the following names:

• Courier

• Courier-Bold

• Courier-BoldOblique

• Courier-Oblique

• Helvetica

• Helvetica-Bold

• Helvetica-BoldOblique

• Helvetica-Oblique

• Times-Bold

• Times-BoldItalic

• Times-Italic

• Times-Roman

• Symbol

METHODS

char_width()

Returns arrayref of all characters width (0..255).

get_char_width($codepoint)

Returns the character width for the given $codepoint.

get_char_name($codepoint)

Returns the character name for the given $codepoint.

AUTHORS

Mohammad S Anwar (MANWAR) <mohammad.anwar at yahoo.com>

REPOSITORY

https://github.com/manwar/pdf-create

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1999-2001,Fabien Tassin.All rights reserved.It may be used and modified freely, but I do request that this copyright notice remain attached to the file. You may modify this module as you wish,but if you redistribute a modified version , please attach a note listing the modifications you have made.

Copyright 2007 Markus Baertschi

Copyright 2010 Gary Lieberman

LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and / or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.6.0.