Font::TTF::Anchor

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2021-01-27
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NAME

Font::TTF::Anchor - Anchor points for GPOS tables

DESCRIPTION

The Anchor defines an anchor point on a glyph providing various information depending on how much is available, including such information as the co-ordinates, a curve point and even device specific modifiers.

INSTANCE VARIABLES

x: XCoordinate of the anchor point
y: YCoordinate of the anchor point
p: Curve point on the glyph to use as the anchor point
xdev: Device table (delta) for the xcoordinate
ydev: Device table (delta) for the ycoordinate
xid: XIdAnchor for multiple master horizontal metric id
yid: YIdAnchor for multiple master vertical metric id

METHODS

new

Creates a new Anchor

read($fh)

Reads the anchor from the given file handle at that point. The file handle is left at an arbitrary read point, usually the end of something!

out($fh, $style)

Outputs the Anchor to the given file handle at this point also addressing issues of deltas. If $style is set, then no output is sent to the file handle. The return value is the output string.

$a->out_xml($context)

Outputs the anchor in XML

AUTHOR

Martin Hosken <http://scripts.sil.org/FontUtils>.

LICENSING

This module is released under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. For details, see the full text of the license in the file LICENSE.