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NAME

Font::AFM - Interface to Adobe Font Metrics files

SYNOPSIS

use Font::AFM;
$h = new Font::AFM "Helvetica";
$copyright = $h->Notice;
$w = $h->Wx->{"aring"};
$w = $h->stringwidth("Gisle", 10);
$h->dump;  # for debugging

DESCRIPTION

This module implements the Font::AFM class. Objects of this class are initialised from an AFM-file and allows you to obtain information about the fonts and the metrics of the various glyphs in the font.

All measurements in AFM files are given in terms of units equal to 1/1000 of the scale factor of the font being used. To compute actual sizes in a document, these amounts should be multiplied by (scale factor of font)/1000.

The following methods are available:

new($fontname)

Object constructor. Takes the name of the font as argument. It will croak if the font can not be found.

latin1_wx_table()

Returns an 256 elements array, where each element contains the width of the corresponding character.

stringwidth($string, [$fontsize])

Returns the width of the string passed as argument. A second argument can be used to scale the width according to the font size.

FontName

The name of the font as presented to the PostScript language c<findfont> operator, for instance "Times-Roman".

FullName

Unique, human-readable name for an individual font, for instance "Times Roman".

FamilyName

Human-readable name for a group of fonts that are stylistic variants of a single design. All fonts that are member of such a group should have exactly the same c<FamilyName>. Example of a family name is "Times".

Weight

Human-readable name for the weight, or "boldness", attribute of a font. Exampes are c<Roman>, c<Bold>, c<Light>.

ItalicAngle

Angle in degrees counterclockwise from the vertical of the dominant vertical strokes of the font.

IsFixedPitch

If the value is c<true>, it indicated that the font is a fixed-pitch (monospaced) font.

FontBBox

A string of four numbers giving the lower-left x, lower-left y, upper-right x, and upper-right y of the font bounding box. The font bounding box is the smallest rectangle enclosing the shape that would result if all the characters of the font were placed with their origins coincident, and the painted.

UnderlinePosition

Recommended distance from the baseline for positioning underline stokes. This number is the y coordinate of the center of the stroke.

UnderlineThickness

Recommended stroke width for underlining.

Version

Version number of the font.

Notice

Trademark or copyright notice, if applicable.

Comment

Comments found in the AFM file.

EncodingScheme

The name of the standard encoding scheme for the font. Most Adobe fonts use the c<AdobeStandardEncoding>. Special fonts might state c<FontSpecific>.

CapHeight

Usually the y-value of the top of the capital H.

XHeight

Typically the y-value of the top of the lowercase x.

Ascender

Typically the y-value of the top of the lowercase d.

Descender

Typically the y-value of the bottom of the lowercase p.

Wx

Returns an hash table that maps from glyph names to the width of that glyph.

BBox

Returns an hash table that maps from glyph names to bounding box information. The bounding box consist of 4 numbers: llx, lly, urx, ury.

dump

Dumps the content of the Font::AFM object to STDOUT. Useful for debugging.

ENVIRONMENT

METRICS

Contains the path to seach for AFM-files. Format is as for the PATH environment variable. The default path built into this library is:

/usr/local/lib/afm:/usr/openwin/lib/fonts/afm/:.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS DOCUMENTATION (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOST PROFITS) EVEN IF THE AUTHORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

AUTHOR

Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

AVAILABILITY

The latest version of this module is likely to be available from:

http://www.oslonett.no/home/aas/perl/

The AFM specification can be found at:

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/DeveloperSupport/TechNotes/PSfiles/5004.AFM_Spec.ps

BUGS

Kerning data and composite character data is not yet parsed. Lingature data is not parsed.