bionic (3) Font::TTF::Cmap.3pm.gz

NAME

       Font::TTF::Cmap - Character map table

DESCRIPTION

       Looks after the character map. For ease of use, the actual cmap is held in a hash against codepoint. Thus
       for a given table:

           $gid = $font->{'cmap'}{'Tables'}[0]{'val'}{$code};

       Note that $code should be a true value (0x1234) rather than a string representation.

INSTANCE VARIABLES

       The instance variables listed here are not preceded by a space due to their emulating structural
       information in the font.

       Num Number of subtables in this table

       Tables
           An array of subtables ([0..Num-1])

           Each subtable also has its own instance variables which are, again, not preceded by a space.

           Platform
               The platform number for this subtable

           Encoding
               The encoding number for this subtable

           Format
               Gives the stored format of this subtable

           Ver Gives the version (or language) information for this subtable

           val A hash keyed by the codepoint value (not a string) storing the glyph id

       The following cmap options are controlled by instance variables that start with a space:

       allowholes
           By default, when generating format 4 cmap subtables character codes that point to glyph zero
           (normally called .notdef) are not included in the subtable. In some cases including some of these
           character codes can result in a smaller format 4 subtable. To enable this behavior, set allowholes to
           non-zero.

METHODS

   $t->read
       Reads the cmap into memory. Format 4 subtables read the whole subtable and fill in the segmented array
       accordingly.

   $t->ms_lookup($uni)
       Finds a Unicode table, giving preference to the MS one, and looks up the given Unicode codepoint in it to
       find the glyph id.

   $t->find_ms
       Finds the a Unicode table, giving preference to the Microsoft one, and sets the "mstable" instance
       variable to it if found. Returns the table it finds.

   $t->ms_enc
       Returns the encoding of the microsoft table (0 => symbol, etc.). Returns undef if there is no Microsoft
       cmap.

   $t->out($fh)
       Writes out a cmap table to a filehandle. If it has not been read, then just copies from input file to
       output

   $t->XML_element($context, $depth, $name, $val)
       Outputs the elements of the cmap in XML. We only need to process val here

   $t->minsize()
       Returns the minimum size this table can be in bytes. If it is smaller than this, then the table must be
       bad and should be deleted or whatever.

   $t->update
       Tidies the cmap table.

       Removes MS Fmt12 cmap if it is no longer needed.

       Removes from all cmaps any codepoint that map to GID=0. Note that such entries will be re-introduced as
       necessary depending on the cmap format.

   @map = $t->reverse(%opt)
       Returns a reverse map of the Unicode cmap. I.e. given a glyph gives the Unicode value for it. Options
       are:

       tnum
           Table number to use rather than the default Unicode table

       array
           Returns each element of reverse as an array since a glyph may be mapped by more than one Unicode
           value. The arrays are unsorted. Otherwise store any one unicode value for a glyph.

   is_unicode($index)
       Returns whether the table of a given index is known to be a unicode table (as specified in the
       specifications)

BUGS

       •   Format 14 (Unicode Variation Sequences) cmaps are not supported.

AUTHOR

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

LICENSING

       Copyright (c) 1998-2016, SIL International (http://www.sil.org)

       This module is released under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.  For details, see the full text of
       the license in the file LICENSE.