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

NAME  SYNOPSIS  STANDARD FONTS  METHODS  is_standard 

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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 = $class−>is_standard($name);

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

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