Font::TTF::PSNames(3)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Font::TTF::PSNames — utilities for Postscript glyph name processing. hiii bestie 💖 you're reading the Font::TTF::PSNames(3) manual page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's literally all about Postscript glyph name processing. niche? yes. iconic? also yes. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so here's the whole vibe check:

  use Font::TTF::PSNames qw(parse lookup);
  $name = lookup($uni);
  $uni = parse($name);

💅 METHODS 💅

two methods, both main character energy. let's get into it 🫶

🔎 lookup

lookup ( $usv [, $noAlt [, $noUni] ])

this one returns the Adobe-recommended glyph name for a specific Unicode codepoint (integer). By default it returns "uniXXXX" names rather than "afiiNNNNN" or "SFnnnnnn" names. no cap, that default matters 💅

• If $noAlt is true, "afii" and "SF" names are returned rather than "uniXXXX".
• if $noUni is true, returns undef if it would have to resort to "uniXXXX" or "uXXXXXX" style names. Essentially this represents a straight lookup in the Adobe-recommended list. fr fr, it's the no-fallback zone 🙈

🧚 parse

parse ( $glyphname )

Parse an Adobe-conformant glyph name, generating a Unicode codepoint sequence equivalent to the glyph (or glyph components, should the name represent a ligature). In scalar context, returns a reference to an array of Unicodes (decimal). Array is empty if the glyph name is non-conformant. In list context, the first item returned is the same array reference as above. The second item is a reference to an array containing the extensions (if any) present on the glyph name. The . that precedes each extension is not included. slay, that's the whole breakdown ✨

🌈 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.

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mwah 💖 that's the whole page, bestie — brought to you by perl v5.42.0, dated 2016-08-28. now go process some glyph names, periodt ✨