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PDF::API2::Basic::TTF::Kern - Kerning tables
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PDF::API2::Basic::TTF::Kern - Kerning tables
Kerning tables are held as an ordered collection of subtables each giving
incremental information regarding the kerning of various pairs of glyphs.
The basic structure of the kerning data structure is:
$kern = $f->{'kern'}{'tables'}[$tnum]{'kerns'}{$leftnum}{$rightnum};
Due to the possible complexity of some kerning tables the above information
is insufficient. Reference also needs to be made to the type of the table and
the coverage field.
The instance variables for a kerning table are relatively straightforward.
- Version
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Version number of the kerning table
- Num
-
Number of subtables in the kerning table
- tables
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Array of subtables in the kerning table
Each subtable has a number of instance variables.
- kern
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A two level hash array containing kerning values. The indexing is left
value and then right value. In the case of type 2 tables, the indexing
is via left class and right class. It may seem using hashes is strange,
but most tables are not type 2 and this method saves empty array values.
- type
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Stores the table type. Only type 0 and type 2 tables are specified for
TrueType so far.
- coverage
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A bit field of coverage information regarding the kerning value. See the
TrueType specification for details.
- Version
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Contains the version number of the table.
- Num
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Number of kerning pairs in this type 0 table.
- left
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An array indexed by glyph - left_first which returns a class number for
the glyph in type 2 tables.
- right
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An array indexed by glyph - right_first which returns a class number for
the glyph in type 2 tables.
- left_first
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the glyph number of the first element in the left array for type 2 tables.
- right_first
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the glyph number of the first element in the right array for type 2 tables.
- num_left
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Number of left classes
- num_right
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Number of right classes
Reads the whole kerning table into structures
Only supports kerning table types 0 & 2.
No real support functions to do anything with the kerning tables yet.
Martin Hosken Martin_Hosken@sil.org. See the PDF::API2::Basic::TTF::Font manpage for copyright and
licensing.
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PDF::API2::Basic::TTF::Kern - Kerning tables
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