NAME¶
PDF::API2::Resource::BaseFont - Base class for font resources
METHODS¶
- $font = PDF::API2::Resource::BaseFont->new($pdf, $name)
- Return a font resource object.
- $descriptor = $font->descrByData()
- Return the font's FontDescriptor key structure based on the font's
data.
- $name = $font->fontname()
- Return the font's name (a.k.a. display name).
- $name = $font->altname()
- Return the font's alternative name (a.k.a. Windows name for a postscript
font).
- $name = $font->subname()
- Return the font's subname (a.k.a. font variant, schriftschnitt).
- $name = $font->apiname()
- Return the font's name to be used internally (should be equal to
$font->name()).
- $issymbol = $font->issymbol()
- Return the font's symbol flag.
- $iscff = $font->iscff()
- Return the font's Compact Font Format flag.
- ($llx, $lly, $urx, $ury) = $font->fontbbox()
- Return the font's bounding box.
- $capheight = $font->capheight()
- Return the font's capheight value.
- $xheight = $font->xheight()
- Return the font's xheight value.
- $missingwidth = $font->missingwidth()
- Return the font's missingwidth value.
- $maxwidth = $font->maxwidth()
- Return the font's maxwidth value.
- $avgwidth = $font->avgwidth()
- Return the font's avgwidth value.
- $flags = $font->flags()
- Return the font's flags value.
- $stemv = $font->stemv()
- Return the font's stemv value.
- $stemh = $font->stemh()
- Return the font's stemh value.
- $italicangle = $font->italicangle()
- Return the font's italicangle value.
- $isfixedpitch = $font->isfixedpitch()
- Return the font's isfixedpitch flag.
- $underlineposition = $font->underlineposition()
- Return the font's underlineposition value.
- $underlinethickness = $font->underlinethickness()
- Return the font's underlinethickness value.
- $ascender = $font->ascender()
- Return the font's ascender value.
- $descender = $font->descender()
- Return the font's descender value.
- @names = $font->glyphNames()
- Return the defined glyph names of the font.
- $glNum = $font->glyphNum()
- Return the number of defined glyph names of the font.
- $uni = $font->uniByGlyph($char)
- Return the unicode by glyph name.
- $uni = $font->uniByEnc($char)
- Return the unicode by the fonts encoding map.
- $uni = $font->uniByMap($char)
- Return the unicode by the font's default map.
- $char = $font->encByGlyph($glyph)
- Return the character by the given glyph name of the font's encoding
map.
- $char = $font->encByUni($uni)
- Return the character by the given unicode of the font's encoding map.
- $char = $font->mapByGlyph($glyph)
- Return the character by the given glyph name of the font's default
map.
- $char = $font->mapByUni($uni)
- Return the character by the given unicode of the fonts default map.
- $name = $font->glyphByUni($uni)
- Return the glyph's name by the font's unicode map. BEWARE:
non-standard glyph-names are mapped onto the ms-symbol area (0xF000).
- $name = $font->glyphByEnc($char)
- Return the glyph's name by the font's encoding map.
- $name = $font->glyphByMap($char)
- Return the glyph's name by the font's default map.
- $width = $font->wxByGlyph($glyph)
- Return the glyph's width.
- $width = $font->wxByUni($uni)
- Return the unicode's width.
- $width = $font->wxByEnc($char)
- Return the character's width based on the current encoding.
- $width = $font->wxByMap($char)
- Return the character's width based on the font's default encoding.
- $wd = $font->width($text)
- Return the width of $text as if it were at size
1.
- @widths = $font->width_array($text)
- Return the widths of the words in $text as if they
were at size 1.
STRING METHODS¶
- $utf8_string = $font->utfByStr($string)
- Return the utf8-string from string based on the font's encoding map.
- $string = $font->strByUtf($utf8_string)
- Return the encoded string from utf8-string based on the font's encoding
map.
- $pdf_string = $font->textByStr($text)
- Return a properly formatted representation of
$text for use in the PDF.
