Provided by: libpdf-api2-perl_2.044-1_all
NAME
PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont - Module for using the 14 standard PDF fonts.
SYNOPSIS
my $pdf = PDF::API2->new(); my $font = $pdf->font('Times-Roman'); my $page = $pdf->page(); my $text = $page->text(); $text->font($font, 20); $text->translate(200, 700); $text->text('Hello world!'); $pdf->save('/path/to/new.pdf');
STANDARD FONTS
The following fourteen fonts are available in all PDF readers that conform to the PDF specification: • Courier • Courier-Bold • Courier-BoldOblique • Courier-Oblique • Helvetica • Helvetica-Bold • Helvetica-BoldOblique • Helvetica-Oblique • Symbol • Times-Bold • Times-BoldItalic • Times-Italic • Times-Roman • ZapfDingbats These fonts (except Symbol and ZapfDingbats) include glyphs for ASCII and certain Latin characters only. If other characters are needed, you will need to embed a font file.
METHODS
is_standard my $boolean = $class->is_standard($name); Returns true if $name is an exact, case-sensitive match for one of the standard font names shown above.