Imager...eeType2(3pm)

🌸 Imager::Font::FreeType2 — NAME 🌸

ok so bestie, this is Imager::Font::FreeType2 — the low-level FreeType2 text output girlies 💅 like it's the backstage pass, not the front door.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea 🫖 — Imager::Font literally just creates an Imager::Font::FreeType2 object whenever it's asked to. Like, it doesn't even ask questions, it just does it. main character energy fr fr 👑

Wanna know how to actually use this type? Go peek at Imager::Font, that's where the vibe check happens 🦋

This class is giving low-level functions realness — and the catch (iykyk 😭) is that the caller has to do all the data validation themselves. No hand-holding, no guardrails, you're on your own babe. 💀

Here's what this driver supports, no cap:

• transform()
• dpi()
• draw() — and bestie, draw() takes these parameters:
  • "utf8"
  • "vlayout"
  • "sizew"

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🎀 Special behaviors 🎀

okay this is the important bit, don't scroll past 🙈

If you call transform() to set a transformation matrix, hinting gets switched off. Periodt. And why, you ask? Because that stops the text from suddenly jumping in size — the hinting does that when the transformation is the identity matrix, and it's giving glitchy 😭

But like… if for some reason you actually want hinting enabled? Totally valid. Just hit it with:

$font->hinting(hinting=>1)

to re-enable it 💖 — and heads up, you gotta call that after every single call to transform(). Every. One. No skipping. 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Addi, Tony — icon, legend, the moment ⭐

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✨ that's the whole page bestie, slay ✨

🌸 this was brought to you by perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-19 — mwah, catch you in the next manpage 💋🎀