NAME

       Prima::PS::Encodings -  manage latin-based encodings

SYNOPSIS

               use Prima::PS::Encodings;

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides code tables for major latin-based encodings, for the glyphs that usually provided by
       every PS-based printer or interpreter.  Prima::PS::Drawable uses these encodings when it decides whether
       the document have to be supplied with a bitmap character glyph or a character index, thus relying on PS
       interpreter capabilities. Latter is obviously preferable, but as it's not possible to know beforehand
       what glyphs are supported by PS interpreter, the Latin glyph set was selected as a ground level.

       files
           It's  unlikely  that  users will need to supply their own encodings, however this can be accomplished
           by:

                   use Prima::PS::Encodings;
                   $Prima::PS::Encodings::files{iso8859-5} = 'PS/locale/greek-iso';

       fontspecific
           The only non-latin encoding currently present is 'Specific'.  If any other specific-encoded fonts are
           to be added, the encoding string must be added as a key to %fontspecific

       load
           Loads encoding file by given string. Tries to be smart to guess actual file  from  identifier  string
           returned  from  setlocale(NULL).  If fails, loads default encoding, which defines only glyphs from 32
           to 126. Special case is 'null' encoding, returns array of 256 .notdef's.

       unique
           Returns list of Latin-based encoding string unique keys.

perl v5.22.1                                       2009-02-24                            Prima::PS::Encodings(3)