This package reads PostScript font files and stores the information in memory. Most font file formats that are in use are recognised, especially the Type 1 and Type 42 font formats. Other formats that usually parse okay are Type 5 and Type 3, althoug...

PostScript::Report::Font represents a font in a PostScript::Report. You won't deal directly with Font objects unless you are writing your own Components. You construct a Font object by calling the report's "get_font" in PostScript::Report method....

PostScript::Font::TTtoType42 is a subclass of Font::TTF::Font. It knows how to wrap a TrueType font into PostScript Type42 format....

This package allows font info files, so called ".inf" files, to be read and (partly) parsed....

This package allows Unix font resource files, so called '".upr"' files, to be read and parsed....

This module contains some handy extensions to PostScript ISO Latin1 encoding (ISO 8859.1). The (class) routine "prepstr" massages a string and makes the following changes, if appropriate: * Any sequence of whitespace characters is compressed into a s...

This package allows Adobe standard font metric files, so called ".afm" files, to be read and (partly) parsed. True Type fonts are understood as well, their metrics are extracted. This requires Martin Hosken's Font::TTF package to be installed (availa...

This package contains the Windows ANSI encoding....

PostScript::BasicTypesetter is an experimental module to facilitate PostScript based typesetting. Its principal reason for existance is that it properly uses font metrics for precise typesetting and kerning. A BasicTypesetter object maintains font in...

This package contains the PostScript StandardEncoding....

This package contains the PostScript ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin-1) encoding....

This package contains the PostScript ISO-8859-15 (ISO Latin-9) encoding....

This package allows printer font metric files for PostScript files (so called ".pfm" files) to be read and (partly) parsed. PFM files contain information that overlaps with that contained in AFM files and can be used with the font files to generate m...

PostScript::File is a class that writes PostScript files following Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions (DSC). You should be familiar with the DSC if you're using this class directly; consult the *PostScript Language Document Structuring Conventi...

Creates a PostScript document with a user-defined header and footer, then attempts to squeeze the data into as many columns as possible....

PostScript::Simple allows you to have a simple method of writing PostScript files from Perl. It has graphics primitives that allow lines, curves, circles, polygons and boxes to be drawn. Text can be added to the page using standard PostScript fonts. ...

PostScript::Report helps you generate nicely formatted reports using PostScript. You do not need any knowledge of PostScript to use this package (unless you want to create new Component types). You probably won't create a PostScript::Report object di...