PDF::Font(3pm)

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version 1.46 · 3 versions
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💖 PDF::Font 💖

okay bestie, so this is PDF::Font — the base font class for PDF::Create. that's the whole vibe. it's from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (3pm, iykyk) and honestly? it's giving foundational. 🎀

✨ VERSION ✨

Version 1.46 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so basically, PDF::Font is the base font class that supports all the font families PDF::Create has blessed and approved. it's not out here doing its own thing — it gets used inside the method init_widths() over in the package PDF::Create::Page. main character supporting role energy, fr fr. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here's how you'd actually use it, no cap:

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 👑

it expects font_name as the only parameter — that's it, that's the whole asking price. and it can be literally one of these names, periodt:

  • 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 an 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> — go look, bestie, it's right there 🏠

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okay so, legal moment, but make it cute:

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. free as in go off, but stay within the rules 💅

and that's the whole page, babe!! 🌈 this was perl v5.38.2, dated 2024-03-07, aka PDF::Font(3pm) — slay, bye, love u 🫶💖✨

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