phpman > perldoc > Font::TTF::Post(3pm)

NAME
    Font::TTF::Post - Holds the Postscript names for each glyph

DESCRIPTION
    Holds the postscript names for glyphs. Note that they are not held as an array, but as indexes
    into two lists. The first list is the standard Postscript name list defined by the TrueType
    standard. The second comes from the font directly.

    Looking up a glyph from a Postscript name or a name from a glyph number is achieved through
    methods rather than variable lookup.

    This class handles PostScript table types of 1, 2, 2.5 & 3, but not version 4. Support for
    version 2.5 is as per Apple spec rather than MS.

    The way to look up Postscript names or glyphs is:

        $pname = $f->{'post'}{'VAL'}[$gnum];
        $gnum = $f->{'post'}{'STRINGS'}{$pname};

INSTANCE VARIABLES
    Due to different systems having different limitations, there are various class variables
    available to control what post table types can be written.

    $Font::TTF::Post::no25
        If set tells Font::TTF::Post::out to use table type 2 instead of 2.5 in case apps cannot
        handle version 2.5.

    VAL Contains an array indexed by glyph number of Postscript names. This is used when writing out
        a font.

    STRINGS
        An associative array of Postscript names mapping to the highest glyph with that name. These
        may not be in sync with VAL.

    In addition there are the standard introductory variables defined in the standard:

        FormatType
        italicAngle
        underlinePosition
        underlineThickness
        isFixedPitch
        minMemType42
        maxMemType42
        minMemType1
        maxMemType1

METHODS
  $t->read
    Reads the Postscript table into memory from disk

  $t->out($fh)
    Writes out a new Postscript name table from memory or copies from disk

  $t->XML_element($context, $depth, $key, $val)
    Outputs the names as one block of XML

  $t->minsize()
    Returns the minimum size this table can be. If it is smaller than this, then the table must be
    bad and should be deleted or whatever.

BUGS
    *   No support for type 4 tables

AUTHOR
    Martin Hosken <http://scripts.sil.org/FontUtils>.

LICENSING
    Copyright (c) 1998-2016, SIL International (http://www.sil.org)

    This module is released under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. For details, see the full
    text of the license in the file LICENSE.