PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont(3)     User Contributed Perl Documentation


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:

       o   Courier

       o   Courier-Bold

       o   Courier-BoldOblique

       o   Courier-Oblique

       o   Helvetica

       o   Helvetica-Bold

       o   Helvetica-BoldOblique

       o   Helvetica-Oblique

       o   Symbol

       o   Times-Bold

       o   Times-BoldItalic

       o   Times-Italic

       o   Times-Roman

       o   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.

perl v5.38.1                      2023-12-21
                                        PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont(3)