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PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont(3pm)

Module for using the 14 standard PDF fonts.

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:

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Courier

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Courier-Bold

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Courier-BoldOblique

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Courier-Oblique

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Helvetica

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Helvetica-Bold

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Helvetica-BoldOblique

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Helvetica-Oblique

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Symbol

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Times-Bold

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Times-BoldItalic

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Times-Italic

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Times-Roman

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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.

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