bionic (3) PS_begin_font.3.gz

NAME

       PS_begin_font — Starts a new Type3 font

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pslib.h>

       int PS_begin_font(PSDoc *psdoc, const char *fontname, int reserverd, double a, double b, double c, double
       d, double e, double f, const char *optlist)

DESCRIPTION

       PostScript supports various kinds of fonts. Type3 fonts are fonts whose glyphs are created with a  subset
       of  regular  PostScript commands.  This function starts a new Type3 font embedded into the document which
       must be closed with PS_end_font. Each glyph  is  created  with  consecutive  calls  of  PS_end_glyph  and
       PS_end_glyph.  Once  the new font is created, it can be used like any other font loaded with PS_findfont.
       The passed floating point numbers are used to set the font matrix. a and d are usually set to 0.001.  The
       remaining numbers can be left zero.

       Each call of PS_begin_font must be accompanied by a call to PS_end_pattern(3).

       PS_begin_font has been introduced in version 0.4.0 of pslib.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns  identifier  of the font or zero in case of an error.  The identifier is a positiv number greater
       0.

SEE ALSO

       PS_end_font(3), PS_begin_glyph(3), PS_end_glyph(3)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx.

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