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¶

    my $boolean = PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont->is_standard($name);

    my @font_names = PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont->list();
    my $array_ref  = PDF::API2::Resource::Font::CoreFont->list();