use strict;
use vars qw($VERSION);
-$VERSION = sprintf "%d.%03d", q$Revision$=~/\d+/g;
+$VERSION = "1.038";
# the aim here is that we can:
# - add file based types in one place: here
class=>'Imager::Font::Truetype',
module=>'Imager/Font/Truetype.pm',
files=>'.*\.ttf$',
+ description => 'FreeType 1.x',
+ checktype => 1,
},
t1=>{
- class=>'Imager::Font::Type1',
- module=>'Imager/Font/Type1.pm',
+ class=>'Imager::Font::T1',
+ module=>'Imager/Font/T1.pm',
files=>'.*\.pfb$',
+ description => 'T1Lib',
},
ft2=>{
- class=>'Imager::Font::FreeType2',
- module=>'Imager/Font/FreeType2.pm',
+ class=>'Imager::Font::FT2',
+ module=>'Imager/Font/FT2.pm',
files=>'.*\.(pfa|pfb|otf|ttf|fon|fnt|dfont|pcf(\.gz)?)$',
+ description => 'FreeType 2.x',
},
ifs=>{
class=>'Imager::Font::Image',
files=>'.*\.ifs$',
},
w32=>{
- class=>'Imager::Font::Win32',
- module=>'Imager/Font/Win32.pm',
+ class=>'Imager::Font::W32',
+ module=>'Imager/Font/W32.pm',
+ description => 'Win32 GDI Fonts',
},
);
# this currently should only contain file based types, don't add w32
my @priority = qw(t1 tt ft2 ifs);
-# when Imager::Font is loaded, Imager.xs has not been bootstrapped yet
-# this function is called from Imager.pm to finish initialization
-sub __init {
- @priority = grep Imager::i_has_format($_), @priority;
- delete @drivers{grep !Imager::i_has_format($_), keys %drivers};
-}
-
-# search method
-# 1. start by checking if file is the parameter
-# 1a. if so qualify path and compare to the cache.
-# 2a. if in cache - take it's id from there and increment count.
-#
-
sub new {
my $class = shift;
my $self = {};
my ($file, $type, $id);
- my %hsh=(color => Imager::Color->new(255,0,0,0),
+ my %hsh=(color => Imager::Color->new(255,0,0,255),
size => 15,
@_);
if ($hsh{'file'}) {
$file = $hsh{'file'};
- if ( $file !~ m/^\// ) {
- $file = './'.$file;
- if (! -e $file) {
- $Imager::ERRSTR = "Font $file not found";
- return();
- }
- }
$type = $hsh{'type'};
- if (!defined($type) or !$drivers{$type}) {
+ if (defined $type) {
+ unless ($drivers{$type}) {
+ Imager->_set_error("Unknown font type $type");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ unless ($Imager::formats{$type}) {
+ Imager->_set_error("The $type {$drivers{$type}) font driver is not installed");
+ return;
+ }
+ }
+ else {
for my $drv (@priority) {
undef $type;
my $re = $drivers{$drv}{files} or next;
if ($file =~ /$re/i) {
- $type = $drv;
- last;
+ if (eval { require $drivers{$drv}{module}; 1 } and !( $drivers{$drv}{checktype} && !$Imager::formats{$drv} )) {
+ $type = $drv;
+ last;
+ }
}
}
}
if (!defined($type)) {
- $Imager::ERRSTR = "Font type not found";
+ # some types we can support, but the driver isn't available
+ # work out which drivers support it, so we can provide the user
+ # some useful information on how to get it working
+ my @not_here;
+ for my $driver_name (keys %drivers) {
+ my $driver = $drivers{$driver_name};
+ push @not_here, "$driver_name ($driver->{description})"
+ if $driver->{files} && $file =~ /$driver->{files}/i;
+ }
+ if (@not_here) {
+ $Imager::ERRSTR = "No font drivers enabled that can support this file, rebuild Imager with any of ".join(", ", @not_here)." to use this font file";
+ }
+ else {
+ $Imager::ERRSTR = "No font type found for $hsh{'file'}";
+ }
return;
}
} elsif ($hsh{face}) {
return;
}
- if (!$Imager::formats{$type}) {
+ if ($drivers{$type}{checktype} && !$Imager::formats{$type}) {
$Imager::ERRSTR = "`$type' not enabled";
return;
}
$Imager::ERRSTR = 'No image supplied to $font->draw()';
return;
}
+ my $image = $input{image};
$input{string} = _first($input{string}, $input{text});
unless (defined $input{string}) {
- $Imager::ERRSTR = "Missing required parameter 'string'";
+ $image->_set_error("Missing required parameter 'string'");
return;
}
$input{aa} = _first($input{aa}, $input{antialias}, $self->{aa}, 1);
$input{size} = _first($input{size}, $self->{size});
unless (defined $input{size}) {
- $input{image}{ERRSTR} = "No font size provided";
+ $image->_set_error("No font size provided");
return undef;
}
$input{align} = _first($input{align}, 1);
$input{utf8} = _first($input{utf8}, $self->{utf8}, 0);
$input{vlayout} = _first($input{vlayout}, $self->{vlayout}, 0);
- $self->_draw(%input);
+ my $result = $self->_draw(%input);
+ unless ($result) {
+ $image->_set_error($image->_error_as_msg());
+ }
+
+ return $result;
}
sub align {
my %input = ( halign => 'left', valign => 'baseline',
'x' => 0, 'y' => 0, @_ );
- my $text = _first($input{string}, $input{text});
- unless (defined $text) {
- Imager->_set_error("Missing required parameter 'string'");
- return;
- }
-
# image needs to be supplied, but can be supplied as undef
unless (exists $input{image}) {
Imager->_set_error("Missing required parameter 'image'");
return;
}
+
+ my $errors_to = $input{image} || 'Imager';
+
+ my $text = _first($input{string}, $input{text});
+ unless (defined $text) {
+ $errors_to->_set_error("Missing required parameter 'string'");
+ return;
+ }
+
my $size = _first($input{size}, $self->{size});
my $utf8 = _first($input{utf8}, 0);
elsif ($halign eq 'center') {
$x -= $bbox->start_offset + $bbox->total_width / 2;
}
- elsif ($halign eq 'end' || $halign eq 'right') {
- $x -= $bbox->start_offset + $bbox->total_width - 1;
+ elsif ($halign eq 'end') {
+ $x -= $bbox->advance_width;
+ }
+ elsif ($halign eq 'right') {
+ $x -= $bbox->advance_width - $bbox->right_bearing;
}
$x = int($x);
$y = int($y);
delete @input{qw/x y/};
$self->draw(%input, 'x' => $x, 'y' => $y, align=>1)
or return;
-# for my $i (1 .. length $text) {
-# my $work = substr($text, 0, $i);
-# my $bbox = $self->bounding_box(string=>$work, size=>$size, utf8=>$utf8);
-# my $nx = $x + $bbox->end_offset;
-# $input{image}->setpixel(x=>[ ($nx) x 5 ],
-# 'y'=>[ $y-2, $y-1, $y, $y+1, $y+2 ],
-# color=>'FF0000');
-# }
}
return ($x+$bbox->start_offset, $y-$bbox->ascent,
$input{sizew} = _first($input{sizew}, $self->{sizew}, 0);
$input{utf8} = _first($input{utf8}, $self->{utf8}, 0);
- my @box = $self->_bounding_box(%input);
+ my @box = $self->_bounding_box(%input)
+ or return;
if (wantarray) {
if(@box && exists $input{'x'} and exists $input{'y'}) {
$box[0]+=$input{'x'};
$box[2]+=$input{'x'};
} elsif (@box && $input{'canon'}) {
- $box[3]-=$box[1]; # make it cannoical (ie (0,0) - (width, height))
+ $box[3]-=$box[1]; # make it canonical (ie (0,0) - (width, height))
$box[2]-=$box[0];
}
return @box;
my @old = @priority;
if (@_) {
- @priority = grep Imager::i_has_format($_), @_;
+ @priority = @_;
}
return @old;
}
+sub register {
+ my ($self, %opts) = @_;
+
+ my $type = delete $opts{type};
+ my $class = delete $opts{class};
+ my $files = delete $opts{files};
+ my $description = delete $opts{description} || $class;
+
+ defined $type
+ or return Imager->_set_error("No type parameter supplied to Imager::Font->regster");
+
+ defined $class
+ or return Imager->_set_error("No class parameter supplied to Imager::Font->register");
+
+ if ($files) {
+ eval { qr/$files/ }
+ or return Imager->_set_error("files isn't a valid regexp");
+ }
+
+ if ($drivers{$type} && $drivers{$type}{class} ne $class) {
+ Imager->_set_error("Font type $type already registered as $drivers{$type}{class}");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ (my $module = $class . ".pm") =~ s(::)(/)g;
+
+ my $driver =
+ {
+ class => $class,
+ module => $module,
+ description => $description,
+ };
+ $files and $driver->{files} = $files;
+
+ $drivers{$type} = $driver;
+
+ 1;
+}
+
1;
__END__
=head1 SYNOPSIS
+ use Imager;
+
$t1font = Imager::Font->new(file => 'pathtofont.pfb');
$ttfont = Imager::Font->new(file => 'pathtofont.ttf');
$w32font = Imager::Font->new(face => 'Times New Roman');
$advance_width,
$right_bearing) = $font->bounding_box(string=>"Foo");
- $logo = $font->logo(text => "Slartibartfast Enterprises",
- size => 40,
- border => 5,
- color => $green);
- # logo is proposed - doesn't exist yet
-
+ my $bbox_object = $font->bounding_box(string=>"Foo");
+ # documented in Imager::Draw
$img->string(font => $font,
text => "Model-XYZ",
x => 15,
color => $red,
aa => 1);
- # Documentation in Imager.pm
-
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This module handles creating Font objects used by imager. The module
+=for stopwords TrueType FreeType
+
+This module handles creating Font objects used by Imager. The module
also handles querying fonts for sizes and such. If both T1lib and
-freetype were avaliable at the time of compilation then Imager should
-be able to work with both truetype fonts and t1 postscript fonts. To
-check if Imager is t1 or truetype capable you can use something like
+FreeType were available at the time of compilation then Imager should
+be able to work with both TrueType fonts and t1 Postscript fonts. To
+check if Imager is t1 or TrueType capable you can use something like
this:
use Imager;
size => 30,
aa => 1);
-This creates a font which is the truetype font denmark.ttf. It's
+This creates a font which is the TrueType font F<denmark.ttf>. It's
default color is $blue, default size is 30 pixels and it's rendered
-antialised by default. Imager can see which type of font a file is by
-looking at the suffix of the filename for the font. A suffix of 'ttf'
-is taken to mean a truetype font while a suffix of 'pfb' is taken to
-mean a t1 postscript font. If Imager cannot tell which type a font is
-you can tell it explicitly by using the C<type> parameter:
+anti-aliased by default. Imager can see which type of font a file is
+by looking at the suffix of the file name for the font. A suffix of
+C<ttf> is taken to mean a TrueType font while a suffix of C<pfb> is
+taken to mean a Type 1 Postscript font. If Imager cannot tell which
+type a font is you can tell it explicitly by using the C<type>
+parameter:
$t1font = Imager::Font->new(file => 'fruitcase', type => 't1');
$ttfont = Imager::Font->new(file => 'arglebarf', type => 'tt');
The C<index> parameter is used to select a single face from a font
file containing more than one face, for example, from a Macintosh font
-suitcase or a .dfont file.
+suitcase or a C<.dfont> file.
If any of the C<color>, C<size> or C<aa> parameters are omitted when
-calling C<Imager::Font->new()> the they take the following values:
+calling C<< Imager::Font->new() >> the they take the following values:
color => Imager::Color->new(255, 0, 0, 0); # this default should be changed
size => 15
aa => 0
index => 0
-To use Win32 fonts supply the facename of the font:
+To use Win32 fonts supply the face name of the font:
$font = Imager::Font->new(face=>'Arial Bold Italic');
There isn't any access to other logical font attributes, but this
typically isn't necessary for Win32 TrueType fonts, since you can
-contruct the full name of the font as above.
+construct the full name of the font as above.
Other logical font attributes may be added if there is sufficient demand.
-=item bounding_box
+Parameters:
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+C<file> - name of the file to load the font from.
+
+=item *
+
+=for stopwords GDI
+
+C<face> - face name. This is used only under Win32 to create a GDI based
+font. This is ignored if the C<file> parameter is supplied.
+
+=item *
+
+C<type> - font driver to use. Currently the permitted values for this are:
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+C<tt> - FreeType 1.x driver. Supports TrueType (C<.ttf>) fonts.
+
+=item *
+
+=for stopwords strikethrough overline
+
+C<t1> - T1 Lib driver. Supports Postscript Type 1 fonts. Allows for
+synthesis of underline, strikethrough and overline.
+
+=item *
+
+C<ft2> - FreeType 2.x driver. Supports many different font formats.
+Also supports the transform() method.
+
+=back
+
+=item *
+
+C<color> - the default color used with this font. Default: red.
+
+=item *
+
+C<size> - the default size used with this font. Default: 15.
+
+=item *
+
+C<utf8> - if non-zero then text supplied to $img->string(...) and
+$font->bounding_box(...) is assumed to be UTF-8 encoded by default.
+
+=item *
+
+C<align> - the default value for the $img->string(...) C<align>
+parameter. Default: 1.
+
+=item *
+
+C<vlayout> - the default value for the $img->string(...) C<vlayout>
+parameter. Default: 0.
+
+=item *
+
+C<aa> - the default value for the $im->string(...) C<aa> parameter.
+Default: 0.
+
+=item *
+
+C<index> - for font file containing multiple fonts this selects which
+font to use. This is useful for Macintosh C<DFON> (F<.dfont>) and suitcase
+font files.
+
+If you want to use a suitcase font you will need to tell Imager to use
+the FreeType 2.x driver by setting C<type> to C<'ft2'>:
+
+ my $font = Imager::Font->new(file=>$file, index => 1, type=>'ft2')
+ or die Imager->errstr;
+
+=back
+
+Returns the new font object on success. Returns C<undef> on failure
+and sets an error message readable with C<< Imager->errstr >>.
+
+=item bounding_box()
Returns the bounding box for the specified string. Example:
@metrics = $font->bounding_box(string=>"testing",size=>15,canon=>1);
-This returns tha same values in $metrics[0] and $metrics[1],
+This returns the same values in $metrics[0] and $metrics[1],
but:
$bbox[2] - horizontal space taken by glyphs
$bbox[3] - vertical space taken by glyphs
Returns an L<Imager::Font::BBox> object in scalar context, so you can
-avoid all those confusing indices. This has methods as named above,
+avoid all those confusing indexes. This has methods as named above,
with some extra convenience methods.
-=item string
-
-This is a method of the Imager class but because it's described in
-here since it belongs to the font routines. Example:
-
- $img=Imager->new();
- $img->read(file=>"test.jpg");
- $img->string(font=>$t1font,
- text=>"Model-XYZ",
- x=>0,
- y=>40,
- size=>40,
- color=>$red);
- $img->write(file=>"testout.jpg");
-
-This would put a 40 pixel high text in the top left corner of an
-image. If you measure the actuall pixels it varies since the fonts
-usually do not use their full height. It seems that the color and
-size can be specified twice. When a font is created only the actual
-font specified matters. It his however convenient to store default
-values in a font, such as color and size. If parameters are passed to
-the string function they are used instead of the defaults stored in
-the font.
-
-The following parameters can be supplied to the string() method:
+Parameters are:
=over
-=item string
-
-The text to be rendered. If this isn't present the 'text' parameter
-is used. If neither is present the call will fail.
-
-=item aa
-
-If non-zero the output will be anti-aliased.
-
-=item x
-
-=item y
-
-The start point for rendering the text. See the align parameter.
-
-=item align
+=item *
-If non-zero the point supplied in (x,y) will be on the base-line, if
-zero then (x,y) will be at the top-left of the string.
+C<string> - the string to calculate the bounding box for. Required.
-ie. if drawing the string "yA" and align is 0 the point (x,y) will
-aligned with the top of the A. If align is 1 (the default) it will be
-aligned with the baseline of the font, typically bottom of the A,
-depending on the font used.
+=item *
-=item channel
+C<size> - the font size to use. Default: value set in
+Imager::Font->new(), or 15.
-If present, the text will be written to the specified channel of the
-image and the color parameter will be ignore.
+=item *
-=item color
+C<sizew> - the font width to use. Default to the value of the C<size>
+parameter.
-The color to draw the text in.
+=item *
-=item size
+C<utf8> - For drivers that support it, treat the string as UTF-8 encoded.
+For versions of perl that support Unicode (5.6 and later), this will
+be enabled automatically if the 'string' parameter is already a UTF-8
+string. See L</UTF-8> for more information. Default: the C<utf8> value
+passed to Imager::Font->new(...) or 0.
-The point-size to draw the text at.
+=item *
-=item sizew
+C<x>, C<y> - offsets applied to @box[0..3] to give you a adjusted bounding
+box. Ignored in scalar context.
-For drivers that support it, the width to draw the text at. Defaults
-to be value of the 'size' parameter.
+=item *
-=item utf8
+C<canon> - if non-zero and the C<x>, C<y> parameters are not supplied,
+then $pos_width and $global_ascent values will returned as the width
+and height of the text instead.
-For drivers that support it, treat the string as UTF8 encoded. For
-versions of perl that support Unicode (5.6 and later), this will be
-enabled automatically if the 'string' parameter is already a UTF8
-string. See L<UTF8> for more information.
+=back
-=item vlayout
+On success returns either the list of bounds, or a bounding box object
+in scalar context. Returns an empty list or C<undef> on failure and
+sets an error message readable with C<< Imager->errstr >>.
-For drivers that support it, draw the text vertically. Note: I
-haven't found a font that has the appropriate metrics yet.
+The transformation matrix set by L</transform()> has no effect on the
+result of this method - the bounds of the untransformed text is
+returned.
-=back
+=item string()
-If string() is called with the C<channel> parameter then the color
-isn't used and the font is drawn in only one channel of the image.
-This can be quite handy to create overlays. See the examples for tips
-about this.
+The $img->string(...) method is now documented in
+L<Imager::Draw/string()>
-Sometimes it is necessary to know how much space a string takes before
-rendering it. The bounding_box() method described earlier can be used
-for that.
-
-=item align(string=>$text, size=>$size, x=>..., y=>..., valign => ..., halign=>...)
+=item align(string=>$text,size=>$size,x=>...,y=>...,valign => ...,halign=>...)
Higher level text output - outputs the text aligned as specified
around the given point (x,y).
=over
-=item valign
+=item *
-Possible values are:
+C<valign> - Possible values are:
=over
-=item top
+=item C<top>
Point is at the top of the text.
-=item bottom
+=item C<bottom>
Point is at the bottom of the text.
-=item baseline
+=item C<baseline>
Point is on the baseline of the text (default.)
-=item center
+=item C<center>
Point is vertically centered within the text.
=back
-=item halign
+=item *
+
+C<halign>
=over
-=item left
+=item *
-The point is at the left of the text.
+C<left> - the point is at the left of the text.
-=item start
+=item *
-The point is at the start point of the text.
+C<start> - the point is at the start point of the text.
-=item center
+=item *
-The point is horizontally centered within the text.
+C<center> - the point is horizontally centered within the text.
-=item right
+=item *
-The point is at the right end of the text.
+C<right> - the point is at the right end of the text.
-=item end
+=item *
-The point is at the right end of the text. This will change to the
-end point of the text (once the proper bounding box interfaces are
-available).
+C<end> - the point is at the end point of the text.
=back
-=item image
+=item *
-The image to draw to. Set to C<undef> to avoid drawing but still
-calculate the bounding box.
+C<image> - The image to draw to. Set to C<undef> to avoid drawing but
+still calculate the bounding box.
=back
-Returns a list specifying the bounds of the drawn text.
+Returns a list specifying the bounds of the drawn text on success.
+Returns an empty list on failure, if an C<image> parameter was
+supplied the error message can be read with C<< $image->errstr >>,
+otherwise it's available as C<< Imager->errstr >>.
=item dpi()
=item dpi(dpi=>$dpi)
-Set retrieve the spatial resolution of the image in dots per inch.
+Set or retrieve the spatial resolution of the image in dots per inch.
The default is 72 dpi.
This isn't implemented for all font types yet.
-=item transform(matrix=>$matrix)
+Possible parameters are:
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+C<xdpi>, C<ydpi> - set the horizontal and vertical resolution in dots
+per inch.
+
+=item *
+
+C<dpi> - set both horizontal and vertical resolution to this value.
+
+=back
+
+Returns a list containing the previous C<xdpi>, C<ydpi> values on
+success. Returns an empty list on failure, with an error message
+returned in C<< Imager->errstr >>.
+
+=item transform()
+
+ $font->transform(matrix=>$matrix);
Applies a transformation to the font, where matrix is an array ref of
numbers representing a 2 x 3 matrix:
transformation, to prevent discontinuities in the transformations.
See the end of the test script t/t38ft2font.t for an example.
-Currently only the ft2 (Freetype 2.x) driver supports the transform()
+Currently only the ft2 (FreeType 2.x) driver supports the transform()
method.
See samples/slant_text.pl for a sample using this function.
increases as you move up, not image co-ordinates where y decreases as
you move up.
+C<transform()> has no effect on the results of L</bounding_box()>.
+
+Returns true on success. Returns false on failure with the cause
+readable from C<< Imager->errstr >>.
+
=item has_chars(string=>$text)
Checks if the characters in $text are defined by the font.
In a list context returns a list of true or false value corresponding
to the characters in $text, true if the character is defined, false if
-not. In scalar context returns a string of NUL or non-NUL
-characters. Supports UTF8 where the font driver supports UTF8.
+not. In scalar context returns a string of C<NUL> or non-C<NUL>
+characters. Supports UTF-8 where the font driver supports UTF-8.
Not all fonts support this method (use $font->can("has_chars") to
check.)
-=item logo
+On error, returns an empty list or undef in scalar context, and sets
+an error message readable with C<< Imager->errstr >>.
+
+=over
+
+=item *
-This method doesn't exist yet but is under consideration. It would mostly
-be helpful for generating small tests and such. Its proposed interface is:
+C<string> - string of characters to check for. Required. Must contain
+at least one character.
- $img = $font->logo(string=>"Plan XYZ", color=>$blue, border=>7);
+=item *
-This would be nice for writing (admittedly multiline) one liners like:
+C<utf8> - For drivers that support it, treat the string as UTF-8
+encoded. For versions of perl that support Unicode (5.6 and later),
+this will be enabled automatically if the 'string' parameter is
+already a UTF-8 string. See L</UTF-8> for more information. Default:
+the C<utf8> value passed to Imager::Font->new(...) or 0.
-Imager::Font->new(file=>"arial.ttf", color=>$blue, aa=>1)
- ->string(text=>"Plan XYZ", border=>5)
- ->write(file=>"xyz.png");
+=back
=item face_name()
Returns the internal name of the face. Not all font types support
-this method yet.
+this method yet, so you should check with C<< $font->can("face_name")
+>> before calling C<face_name>.
=item glyph_names(string=>$string [, utf8=>$utf8 ][, reliable_only=>0 ] );
string. If the character has no name then C<undef> is returned for
the character.
-Some font files do not include glyph names, in this case Freetype 2
-will not return any names. Freetype 1 can return standard names even
+Some font files do not include glyph names, in this case FreeType 2
+will not return any names. FreeType 1 can return standard names even
if there are no glyph names in the font.
-Freetype 2 has an API function that returns true only if the font has
+FreeType 2 has an API function that returns true only if the font has
"reliable glyph names", unfortunately this always returns false for
-TTF fonts. This can avoid the check of this API by supplying
+TrueType fonts. This can avoid the check of this API by supplying
C<reliable_only> as 0. The consequences of using this on an unknown
-font may be unpredictable, since the Freetype documentation doesn't
+font may be unpredictable, since the FreeType documentation doesn't
say how those name tables are unreliable, or how FT2 handles them.
-Both Freetype 1.x and 2.x allow support for glyph names to not be
+Both FreeType 1.x and 2.x allow support for glyph names to not be
included.
+If the supplied C<string> is marked as UTF-8 or the C<utf8> parameter
+is true and the supplied string does not contain valid UTF-8, returns
+an empty string and set an error message readable from C<<
+Imager->errstr >>,
+
+=item can_glyph_names()
+
+As a class method, returns true if the underlying library supports
+returning glyph names.
+
+As an object method, returns true if the supplied font supports
+returning glyph names.
+
+=item draw
+
+This is used by Imager's string() method to implement drawing text.
+See L<Imager::Draw/string()>.
+
=back
=head1 MULTIPLE MASTER FONTS
-The Freetype 2 driver supports multiple master fonts:
+The FreeType 2 driver supports multiple master fonts:
=over
future, check if your selected font object supports the is_mm() method
using the can() method.
-=head1 UTF8
+=head1 UTF-8
There are 2 ways of rendering Unicode characters with Imager:
=item *
-For versions of perl that support it, use perl's native UTF8 strings.
+For versions of perl that support it, use perl's native UTF-8 strings.
This is the simplest method.
=item *
-Hand build your own UTF8 encoded strings. Only recommended if your
-version of perl has no UTF8 support.
+Hand build your own UTF-8 encoded strings. Only recommended if your
+version of perl has no UTF-8 support.
=back
Imager won't construct characters for you, so if want to output
-unicode character 00C3 "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS", and
+Unicode character 00C3 "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS", and
your font doesn't support it, Imager will I<not> build it from 0041
"LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A" and 0308 "COMBINING DIAERESIS".
-=head2 Native UTF8 Support
+To check if a driver supports UTF-8 call the utf8() method:
+
+=over
+
+=item utf8()
+
+Return true if the font supports UTF-8.
-If your version of perl supports UTF8 and the driver supports UTF8,
+=back
+
+=head2 Native UTF-8 Support
+
+If your version of perl supports UTF-8 and the driver supports UTF-8,
just use the $im->string() method, and it should do the right thing.
=head2 Build your own
-In this case you need to build your own UTF8 encoded characters.
+In this case you need to build your own UTF-8 encoded characters.
For example:
$x = pack("C*", 0xE2, 0x80, 0x90); # character code 0x2010 HYPHEN
-You need to be be careful with versions of perl that have UTF8
-support, since your string may end up doubly UTF8 encoded.
+You need to be careful with versions of perl that have UTF-8
+support, since your string may end up doubly UTF-8 encoded.
For example:
$x = "A\xE2\x80\x90\x41\x{2010}";
substr($x, -1, 0) = "";
- # at this point $x is has the UTF8 flag set, but has 5 characters,
- # none, of which is the constructed UTF8 character
+ # at this point $x is has the UTF-8 flag set, but has 5 characters,
+ # none, of which is the constructed UTF-8 character
-The test script t/t38ft2font.t has a small example of this after the
+The test script t/t38ft2font.t has a small example of this after the
comment:
- # an attempt using emulation of UTF8
+ # an attempt using emulation of UTF-8
=head1 DRIVER CONTROL
list is used to choose which one should be used, if a given format can
be handled by more than one driver.
-The current priority can be retrieved with:
+=over
+
+=item priorities
+
+The current priorities can be retrieved with:
@drivers = Imager::Font->priorities();
If you supply driver names that are not currently supported, they will
be ignored.
-Imager supports both T1Lib and Freetype2 for working with Type 1
+Imager supports both T1Lib and FreeType 2 for working with Type 1
fonts, but currently only T1Lib does any caching, so by default T1Lib
-is given a higher priority. Since Imager's Freetype2 support can also
+is given a higher priority. Since Imager's FreeType 2 support can also
do font transformations, you may want to give that a higher priority:
my @old = Imager::Font->priorities(qw(tt ft2 t1));
+=item register
+
+Registers an extra font driver. Accepts the following parameters:
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+type - a brief identifier for the font driver. You can supply this
+value to C<< Imager::Font->new() >> to create fonts of this type.
+Required.
+
+=item *
+
+class - the font class name. Imager will attempted to load this
+module by name. Required.
+
+=item *
+
+files - a regular expression to match against file names. If supplied
+this must be a valid perl regular expression. If not supplied you can
+only create fonts of this type by supplying the C<type> parameter to
+C<< Imager::Font->new() >>
+
+=item *
+
+description - a brief description of the font driver. Defaults to the
+value supplied in C<class>.
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Arnar M. Hrafnkelsson, addi@umich.edu
-And a great deal of help from others - see the README for a complete
+And a great deal of help from others - see the F<README> for a complete
list.
=head1 BUGS
-You need to modify this class to add new font types.
-
The $pos_width member returned by the bounding_box() method has
historically returned different values from different drivers. The
-Freetype 1.x and 2.x, and the Win32 drivers return the max of the
+FreeType 1.x and 2.x, and the Win32 drivers return the max of the
advance width and the right edge of the right-most glyph. The Type 1
driver always returns the right edge of the right-most glyph.
The newer advance_width and right_bearing values allow access to any
of the above.
+=head1 REVISION
+
+$Revision$
+
=head1 SEE ALSO
Imager(3), Imager::Font::FreeType2(3), Imager::Font::Type1(3),
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