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.