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PDF::Font::Loader cpan:WARRINGD last updated on 2021-01-05

[Raku PDF Project] / [PDF-Font-Loader Module]

NAME

PDF::Font::Loader

SYNPOSIS

# load a font from a file
use PDF::Font::Loader :load-font;

my $deja = PDF::Font::Loader.load-font: :file<t/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf>;
my $deja = load-font( :file<t/fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf> );

# find/load system fonts; requires fontconfig
use PDF::Font::Loader :load-font, :find-font;
$deja = load-font( :family<DejaVu>, :slant<italic> );
my Str $file = find-font( :family<DejaVu>, :slant<italic> );
my $deja-vu = load-font: :$file;

# use the font to add text to a PDF
use PDF::Lite;
my PDF::Lite $pdf .= new;
$pdf.add-page.text: {
   .font = $deja;
   .text-position = [10, 600];
   .say: 'Hello, world';
}
$pdf.save-as: "/tmp/example.pdf";

DESCRIPTION

This module provdes font loading and handling for PDF::Lite, PDF::API6 and other PDF modules.

METHODS

load-font

A class level method to create a new font object.

PDF::Font::Loader.load-font(Str :$file, Bool :$subset, :$enc, $lang);

Loads a font file.

parameters:

• :$file

  Font file to load. Currently supported formats are:

  * Open-Type (`.otf`)
  
  
  * True-Type (`.ttf`)
  
  
  * Postscript (`.pfb`, or `.pfa`)
  
  
  * CFF (`.cff`)
  

• :$subset (experimental)

  Whether to subset the font for compaction. The font is reduced to the set of characters that have been actually been encoded. This can greatly reduce the output size of the generated PDF file.

  This feature currently works on OpenType or TrueType fonts and requires installation of the experimental HarfBuzz::Subset module.

• :$enc

  Selects the encoding mode: common modes are win, mac and identity-h.

  • mac Macintosh platform single byte encoding

  • win Windows platform single byte encoding

  • identity-h a degenerative two byte encoding mode

  win is used as the default encoding for fonts with no more than 255 glyphs. identity-h is used otherwise.

  It is recommended that you set a single byte encoding such as :enc<mac> or :enc<win> when it known that no more that 255 distinct characters will actually be used from the font within the PDF.

PDF::Font::Loader.load-font(Str :$family, Str :$weight, Str :$stretch, Str :$slant, Bool :$subset, Str :$enc, Str :$lang);

my $vera = PDF::Font::Loader.load-font: :family<vera>;
my $deja = PDF::Font::Loader.load-font: :family<Deja>, :weight<bold>, :stretch<condensed> :slant<italic>);

Loads a font by a fontconfig name and attributes.

Note: Requires fontconfig to be installed on the system.

parameters:

• :$family

  Family name of an installed system font to load.

• :$weight

  Font weight, one of: thin, extralight, light, book, regular, medium, semibold, bold, extrabold, black or a number in the range 100 .. 900.

• :$stretch

  Font stretch, one of: normal, ultracondensed, extracondensed, condensed, or expanded

• :$slant

  Font slat, one of: normal, oblique, or italic

• :$lang

  A RFC-3066-style language tag. fontconfig will select only fonts whose character set matches the preferred lang. See also I18N::LangTags.

find-font

use PDF::Font::Loader
    :Weight  # thin|extralight|light|book|regular|medium|semibold|bold|extrabold|black|100..900
    :Stretch # normal|[ultra|extra]?[condensed|expanded]
    :Slant   # normal|oblique|italic
;
find-font(Str :$family,     # e.g. :family<vera>
          Weight  :$weight,
          Stretch :$stretch,
          Slant   :$slant,
          Str     :$lang,   # e.g. :lang<jp>
          );

Locates a matching font-file. Doesn't actually load it.

my $file = PDF::Font::Loader.find-font: :family<Deja>, :weight<bold>, :width<condensed>, :slant<italic>, :lang<en>;
say $file;  # /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf
my $font = PDF::Font::Loader.load-font: :$file;

INSTALL

• PDF::Font::Loader depends on Font::FreeType which further depends on the freetype library, so you must install that prior to installing this module.

• Installation of the fontconfig library and command-line tools is strongly recommended.