PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont - Module for using the 14 standard PDF fonts.

NAME  SYNOPSIS  STANDARD FONTS  METHODS  is_standard  names 

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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.

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