1Font::TTF::Post(3)    User Contributed Perl Documentation   Font::TTF::Post(3)
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NAME

6       Font::TTF::Post - Holds the Postscript names for each glyph
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DESCRIPTION

9       Holds the postscript names for glyphs. Note that they are not held as
10       an array, but as indexes into two lists. The first list is the standard
11       Postscript name list defined by the TrueType standard. The second comes
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14       Looking up a glyph from a Postscript name or a name from a glyph number
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17       This class handles PostScript table types of 1, 2, 2.5 & 3, but not
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21       The way to look up Postscript names or glyphs is:
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23           $pname = $f->{'post'}{'VAL'}[$gnum];
24           $gnum = $f->{'post'}{'STRINGS'}{$pname};
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INSTANCE VARIABLES

27       Due to different systems having different limitations, there are
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31       $Font::TTF::Post::no25
32           If set tells Font::TTF::Post::out to use table type 2 instead of
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35       VAL Contains an array indexed by glyph number of Postscript names. This
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38       STRINGS
39           An associative array of Postscript names mapping to the highest
40           glyph with that name. These may not be in sync with VAL.
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42       In addition there are the standard introductory variables defined in
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45           FormatType
46           italicAngle
47           underlinePosition
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49           isFixedPitch
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METHODS

56   $t->read
57       Reads the Postscript table into memory from disk
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59   $t->out($fh)
60       Writes out a new Postscript name table from memory or copies from disk
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62   $t->XML_element($context, $depth, $key, $val)
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65   $t->minsize()
66       Returns the minimum size this table can be. If it is smaller than this,
67       then the table must be bad and should be deleted or whatever.
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BUGS

70       •   No support for type 4 tables
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AUTHOR

73       Martin Hosken <http://scripts.sil.org/FontUtils>.
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LICENSING

76       Copyright (c) 1998-2016, SIL International (http://www.sil.org)
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78       This module is released under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.
79       For details, see the full text of the license in the file LICENSE.
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