Text::PDF::TTFont(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::PDF::TTFont(3)NAMEText::PDF::TTFont - Inherits from Text::PDF::Dict and represents a
TrueType font within a PDF file.
DESCRIPTION
A font consists of two primary parts in a PDF file: the header and the
font descriptor. Whilst two fonts may share font descriptors, they will
have their own header dictionaries including encoding and widhth
information.
INSTANCE VARIABLES
There are no instance variables beyond the variables which directly
correspond to entries in the appropriate PDF dictionaries.
METHODS
Text::PDF::TTFont->new($parent, $fontfname, $pdfname, %opts)
Creates a new font resource for the given fontfile. This includes the
font descriptor and the font stream. The $pdfname is the name by which
this font resource will be known throught a particular PDF file.
All font resources are full PDF objects.
$t->width($text)
Measures the width of the given text according to the widths in the
font
$t->trim($text, $len)
Trims the given text to the given length (in per mille em) returning
the trimmed text
$t->out_text($text)
Indicates to the font that the text is to be output and returns the
text to be output
$f->copy
Copies the font object excluding the name, widths and encoding, etc.
TITLE
Text::PDF::TTIOString - internal IO type handle for string output for
font embedding. This code is ripped out of IO::Scalar, to save the
direct dependence for so little. See IO::Scalar for details
perl v5.14.0 2011-06-17 Text::PDF::TTFont(3)