Text::PDF::SFont(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Text::PDF::SFont(3)NAMEText::PDF::SFont - PDF Standard inbuilt font resource object. Inherits
from Text::PDF::Dict
METHODS
Text::PDF::SFont->new($parent, $name, $pdfname)
Creates a new font object with given parent and name. The name must be
from one of the core 14 base fonts included with PDF. These are:
Courier, Courier-Bold, Courier-Oblique, Courier-BoldOblique
Times-Roman, Times-Bold, Times-Italic, Times-BoldItalic
Helvetica, Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-Oblique, Helvetica-BoldOblique
Symbol, ZapfDingbats
The $pdfname is the name that this particular font object will be
referenced by throughout the PDF file. If you want to play silly games
with naming, then you can write the code to do it!
All fonts in this system are full PDF objects.
BUGS
Currently no width support for Symbol or ZapfDingbats, I haven't got my
head around the AFMs yet.
MacExpertEncoding not supported yet (I don't have the width info for
any of the fonts)
$f->width($text)
Returns the width of the text in em.
$f->trim($text, $len)
Trims the given text to the given length (in em) returning the trimmed
text
$f->out_text($text)
Acknowledges the text to be output for subsetting purposes, etc.
perl v5.14.0 2011-06-17 Text::PDF::SFont(3)
