PDF::Bu...CJKFont(3)

💖 PDF::Builder::Resource::CIDFont::CJKFont 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for PDF::Builder::Resource::CIDFont::CJKFont — it's part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and yes, the header is doing that whole abbreviated PDF::Bu...CJKFont(3) thing because apparently even manpages have to be mysterious. 🙈

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✨ NAME ✨

PDF::Builder::Resource::CIDFont::CJKFont — it's the base class for CJK fonts, periodt. 👑

It inherits from PDF::Builder::Resource::CIDFont, so all that parent-class energy comes along for the ride. 🫶

ngl bestie, real talk: CJK font support is somewhat obsolete. The move is to skip this whole situation and go directly to using an up-to-date TTF or OTF font, with UTF-8 input, instead. That's the vibe. ✨

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🌸 METHODS 🌸

new

$font = PDF::Builder::Resource::CIDFont::CJKFont->new($pdf, $cjkname, %opts)

Returns a cjk-font object. Literally that simple. 💅

Here's the menu of $cjkname values you can order off of:

• Traditional Chinese: Ming, Ming-Bold, Ming-Italic, Ming-BoldItalic
• Simplified Chinese: Song, Song-Bold, Song-Italic, Song-BoldItalic
• Korean: MyungJo, MyungJo-Bold, MyungJo-Italic, MyungJo-BoldItalic
• Japanese (Mincho): KozMin, KozMin-Bold, KozMin-Italic, KozMin-BoldItalic
• Japanese (Gothic): KozGo, KozGo-Bold, KozGo-Italic, KozGo-BoldItalic

Defined Options (%opts)

• encode — specify fonts encoding for non-utf8 text. iykyk, if your text isn't utf8, this is the one you reach for. 🎀

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glyphByCId

$n = $font->glyphByCId($gid)

Returns a character's glyph name (as a string), given its glyph ID. So you hand it the $gid, it hands you back the glyph name. iconic exchange, no notes. 🦋

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and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 💅✨

this lil masterpiece was brought to you by perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-01-17, and the manual page itself is PDF::Bu...CJKFont(3) 🎀🫶💖