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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.