NAME
RTF::Reader::Font
DESCRIPTION
Interface to RTF fonts
OVERVIEW
To (hopefully) make document conversion from RTF easier, fonts are interfaced through a nice clean class of their own. That, and I don't like the thought of throwing around data structures, only to have the all-seeing Microsoft change the underlying structure of RTF documents, and mess up a bunch of legacy code.
An RTF::Reader::Font object represents a single font in a document.
RTF::Reader currently does NOT support embedded fonts. Patches (with copious accompanying tests) welcome.
METHODS
family
Returns a string corresponding to the family of the font.
Stolen from the RTF spec (1.6): "RTF also supports font families, so that applications can attempt to intelligently choose fonts if the exact font is not present on the reading system. RTF uses the following [names] to describe the various font families."
nil
Unknown or default fonts (the default)
roman
Roman, proportionally spaced serif fonts eg: Times New Roman, Palatino
swiss
Swiss, proportionally spaced sans serif fonts eg: Arial
modern
Fixed-pitch serif and sans serif fonts eg: Courier New, Pica
script
Script fonts eg: Cursive
decor
Decorative fonts eg: Old English, ITC Zapf Chancery
tech
Technical, symbol, and mathematical fonts eg: Symbol
bidi
Arabic, Hebrew, or other bidirectional font eg: Miriam
charset
Returns the character set of the font - the number returned is defined by the Windows header files:
0 ANSI
1 Default
2 Symbol
3 Invalid
77 Mac
128 Shift Jis
129 Hangul
130 Johab
134 GB2312
136 Big5
161 Greek
162 Turkish
163 Vietnamese
177 Hebrew
178 Arabic
179 Arabic Traditional
180 Arabic user
181 Hebrew user
186 Baltic
204 Russian
222 Thai
238 Eastern European
254 PC 437
255 OEMpitch
Font pitch to use: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/fixed_pitch.html
0 Default pitch
1 Fixed pitch
2 Variable pitchpanose
PANOSE is a system for font matching - this property returns a PANOSE description of the font as described here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/gdi/fontext_48aa.asp