NAME

       PDF::Font - Base font class for PDF::Create.

VERSION

       Version 1.46

DESCRIPTION

       Base font class to support font families approved by PDF::Create. This is used in the method
       "init_widths()" inside the package PDF::Create::Page.

SYNOPSIS

           use strict; use warnings;
           use PDF::Font;

           my $font = PDF::Font->new('Helvetica');
           my $char_widths = $font->char_width;
           print "Character width: ", $font->get_char_width(ord('A')), "\n";
           print "Character  name: ", $font->get_char_name(ord('A')) , "\n";

CONSTRUCTOR

       Expects "font_name" as the only parameter. It can be one of the following names:

       •   Courier

       •   Courier-Bold

       •   Courier-BoldOblique

       •   Courier-Oblique

       •   Helvetica

       •   Helvetica-Bold

       •   Helvetica-BoldOblique

       •   Helvetica-Oblique

       •   Times-Bold

       •   Times-BoldItalic

       •   Times-Italic

       •   Times-Roman

       •   Symbol

METHODS

   char_width()
       Returns arrayref of all characters width (0..255).

   get_char_width($codepoint)
       Returns the character width for the given $codepoint.

   get_char_name($codepoint)
       Returns the character name for the given $codepoint.

AUTHORS

       Mohammad S Anwar (MANWAR) "<mohammad.anwar at yahoo.com>"

REPOSITORY

       <https://github.com/manwar/pdf-create>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright  1999-2001,Fabien  Tassin.All  rights  reserved.It  may  be  used and modified freely, but I do
       request that this copyright notice remain attached to the file.   You  may  modify  this  module  as  you
       wish,but if you redistribute a modified version , please attach a note listing the modifications you have
       made.

       Copyright 2007 Markus Baertschi

       Copyright 2010 Gary Lieberman

LICENSE

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and / or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.6.0.

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