PDF::AP...CIDFont(3)

👑 PDF::API2::Resource::CIDFont

okay bestie, welcome to PDF::AP...CIDFont(3) — yes that's the manual name, it's giving truncated-glam but we move 💅. This page comes from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's the lowkey legendary home of CID font stuff. Let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

PDF::API2::Resource::CIDFont — the base class for CID fonts. That's it, that's the name. The blueprint. The blueprint-est blueprint to ever blueprint 💖

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🌸 METHODS 🌸

💫 $font = PDF::API2::Resource::CIDFont->new $pdf, $name

Not me handing you a whole brand-new cid-font object ✨ This is the constructor, and it returns a cid-font object — and it's the base class that every single CID-based font out there inherits its whole vibe from. Main character energy fr fr 👑

💫 $cidstring = $font->cidsByStr $string

Pass in a $string and it hands you back the $cidstring 🎀 How does it know? It maps it through the font's encoding map, that's how. It's literally just translation, and it ate 💅

💫 $cidstring = $font->cidsByUtf $utf8string

Same energy, different input 🌈 You give it a $utf8string and you get back the cid-encoded string. UTF-8 in, CID out, no cap 🧚

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ngl there are exactly three methods here and that's the whole page — a small page but an iconic one, iykyk 🫶

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and that's a wrap, bestie 💖 this page is from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-09-01, and it lives under the User Contributed Perl Documentation. go forth and encode your CIDs, you absolute icon 🌟💅🎀