phpman > perldoc > PDF::Font(3pm)

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.