Font::FreeType Read font files and render glyphs from Perl using FreeType2
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Read font files and render glyphs from Perl using FreeType2 Font::FreeType is a Perl module that allows Perl programs to conveniently read information from font files. All the font access is done through the FreeType2 library, which supports many formats. It can render images of characters with high-quality hinting and antialiasing, extract metrics information, and extract the outlines of characters in scalable formats like TrueType.Warning: this module is currently in 'beta' stage. It'll be another release or two before it stabilizes. The API may change in ways that break programs based on it, but I don't think it will change much. Some of the values returned may be wrong, or not scaled correctly. See the TODO file to get a handle on how far along this work is. Contributions welcome, particularly if you know more than I do (which isn't much) about fonts and the FreeType2 library.The Font::FreeType API is not intended to replicate the C API of the FreeType library -- it offers a much more Perl-friendly interface.The quickest way to get started with this library is to look at the examples in the examples directory of the distribution. Full details of the API are contained in this documentation, and (more importantly) the documentation for the Font::FreeType::Face and Font::FreeType::Glyph classes.To use the library, first create a Font::FreeType object. This can be used to load faces from files, for example: my $freetype = Font::FreeType->new; my $face = $freetype->face('Vera.ttf');If your font is scalable (i.e., not a bitmapped font) then set the size and resolution you want to see it at, for example 24pt at 100dpi: $face->set_char_size(24, 24, 100, 100);Then load a particular glyph (an image of a character), either by character code (in Unicode) or the actual character: my $glyph = $face->glyph_from_char_code(65); my $glyph = $face->glyph_from_char('A');Glyphs can be rendered to bitmap images, among other things: my $bitmap = $glyph->bitmap;See the documentation for Font::FreeType::Glyph for details of the format of the bitmap array reference that returns, and for other ways to get information about a glyph.SYNOPSIS use Font::FreeType; my $freetype = Font::FreeType->new; my $face = $freetype->face('Vera.ttf'); $face->set_char_size(24, 24, 100, 100); my $glyph = $face->glyph_from_char('A'); Requirements: · Perl

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