NAME¶
Prima::PS::Encodings - manage latin-based encodings
SYNOPSIS¶
use Prima::PS::Encodings;
DESCRIPTION¶
This module provides code tables for major latin-based encodings, for the glyphs
that usually provided by every PS-based printer or interpreter.
Prima::PS::Drawable uses these encodings when it decides whether the document
have to be supplied with a bitmap character glyph or a character index, thus
relying on PS interpreter capabilities. Latter is obviously preferable, but as
it's not possible to know beforehand what glyphs are supported by PS
interpreter, the Latin glyph set was selected as a ground level.
- files
- It's unlikely that users will need to supply their own encodings, however
this can be accomplished by:
use Prima::PS::Encodings;
$Prima::PS::Encodings::files{iso8859-5} = 'PS/locale/greek-iso';
- fontspecific
- The only non-latin encoding currently present is 'Specific'. If any other
specific-encoded fonts are to be added, the encoding string must be added
as a key to %fontspecific
- load
- Loads encoding file by given string. Tries to be smart to guess actual
file from identifier string returned from setlocale(NULL). If fails, loads
default encoding, which defines only glyphs from 32 to 126. Special case
is 'null' encoding, returns array of 256 .notdef's.
- unique
- Returns list of Latin-based encoding string unique keys.