1Text::PDF::TTFont(3)  User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::PDF::TTFont(3)
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NAME

6       Text::PDF::TTFont - Inherits from Text::PDF::Dict and represents a
7       TrueType font within a PDF file.
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DESCRIPTION

10       A font consists of two primary parts in a PDF file: the header and the
11       font descriptor. Whilst two fonts may share font descriptors, they will
12       have their own header dictionaries including encoding and widhth
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INSTANCE VARIABLES

16       There are no instance variables beyond the variables which directly
17       correspond to entries in the appropriate PDF dictionaries.
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METHODS

20   Text::PDF::TTFont->new($parent, $fontfname, $pdfname, %opts)
21       Creates a new font resource for the given fontfile. This includes the
22       font descriptor and the font stream. The $pdfname is the name by which
23       this font resource will be known throughtout a particular PDF file.
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25       All font resources are full PDF objects.
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27   $t->width($text)
28       Measures the width of the given text according to the widths in the
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31   $t->trim($text, $len)
32       Trims the given text to the given length (in per mille em) returning
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35   $t->out_text($text)
36       Indicates to the font that the text is to be output and returns the
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39   $f->copy
40       Copies the font object excluding the name, widths and encoding, etc.
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TITLE

43       Text::PDF::TTIOString - internal IO type handle for string output for
44       font embedding. This code is ripped out of IO::Scalar, to save the
45       direct dependence for so little. See IO::Scalar for details
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