1Font::TTF::Ttc(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Font::TTF::Ttc(3)
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6 Font::TTF::Ttc - Truetype Collection class
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9 A TrueType collection is a collection of TrueType fonts in one file in
10 which tables may be shared between different directories. In order to
11 support this, the TTC introduces the concept of a table being shared by
12 different TrueType fonts. This begs the question of what should happen
13 to the ' PARENT' property of a particular table. It is made to point to
14 the first directory object which refers to it. It is therefore up to
15 the application to sort out any confusion. Confusion only occurs if
16 shared tables require access to non-shared tables. This should not
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19 identification. Thus the general direction is from identification to
20 glyph and not the other way around (at least not without knowledge of
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26 fname (P)
27 Filename for this TrueType Collection
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30 The filehandle of this collection
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35 An array of directories (Font::TTF::Font objects) for each sub-font
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39 Font::TTF::Ttc->open($fname)
40 Opens and reads the given filename as a TrueType Collection. Reading a
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47 $c->find($direct, $name, $check, $off, $len)
48 Hunts around to see if a table with the given characteristics of name,
49 checksum, offset and length has been associated with a directory
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57 No known bugs, but then not ever executed!
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60 Martin Hosken <http://scripts.sil.org/FontUtils>.
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63 Copyright (c) 1998-2016, SIL International (http://www.sil.org)
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65 This module is released under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.
66 For details, see the full text of the license in the file LICENSE.
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