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lib::PostScript::FontInfo

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: perl 5.005, patch 03
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NAME

PostScript::FontInfo - module to fetch data from PostScript font .inf files

SYNOPSIS

  my $info = new PostScript::FontInfo (filename, options);  print STDOUT ("Name = ", $info->name, "\n");

DESCRIPTION

This package allows font info files, so called .inf files, to beread and (partly) parsed.

CONSTRUCTOR

new ( FILENAME [ , OPTIONS ] ): The constructor will read the file and parse its contents.

OPTIONS

error => [ `die' | `warn' | `ignore' ]: How errors must be handled. Default is to call die().In any case, new() returns a undefined result.
verbose => value: Prints verbose info if value is true.
trace => value: Prints tracing info if value is true.
debug => value: Prints debugging info if value is true.Implies `trace' and `verbose'.

INSTANCE METHODS

Each of these methods can return undef if the correspondinginformation could not be found in the file.

FileName: The name of the file, e.g. `tir_____.afm'.
FontName: The name of the font, e.g. `Times-Roman'.
FamilyName: The family name of the font, e.g. `Times'.
Version: The version of the font, e.g. `001.007'.
PCFileNamePrefix: The prefix used to form MS-DOS compliant file names, e.g. `tir__'.
InfoData: The complete contents of the file, normalised to Unix-style line endings.

AUTHOR

Johan Vromans, Squirrel Consultancy <jvromansAATTsquirrel.nl>

COPYRIGHT and DISCLAIMER

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License aspublished by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (atyour option) any later version, or b) the ``Artistic License'' whichcomes with Perl.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, butWITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty ofMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either theGNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.

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