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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 $boolean = PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont->is_standard($name);

       Returns true if $name is an exact, case-sensitive match for one of the standard font names shown above.

   names
           my @font_names = PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont->list();
           my $array_ref  = PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont->list();

       Returns an array or a reference to an array containing the names of the built-in core (standard) fonts.