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PDF-API2-2.045
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/ PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont

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 = $class->is_standard($name);

Returns true if $name is an exact, case-sensitive match for one of the standard font names shown above.