PDF::Font(3)

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.