[Raku PDF Project] / [Font-FreeType Module]

Font-FreeType-raku - Raku binding to the FreeType font library (version 2)

Classes in this Distribution

Font::FreeType - Font Library Instance
Font::FreeType::Face - Font Properties
Font::FreeType::Glyph - Glyph properties
Font::FreeType::GlyphImage - Glyph outlines and bitmaps
Font::FreeType::Outline - Scalable glyph images
Font::FreeType::BitMap - Rendered glyph bitmaps
Font::FreeType::CharMap - Font Encodings
Font::FreeType::SizeMetrics - Scaled font metrics
Font::FreeType::Raw - Bindings to the FreeType library
Font::FreeType::Raw::Defs - Data types and enumerations
Font::FreeType::Raw::TT_Sfnt - Direct access to raw font tables

Synopsis

use Font::FreeType;

my Font::FreeType $freetype .= new;
my $face = $freetype.face('t/fonts/Vera.ttf');

$face.set-font-size(12, 12, 72, 72);
for $face.glyph-images('ABC') {
    my $outline = .outline;
    my $bitmap = .bitmap;
    # ...
}

Description

This module allows Raku 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 anti-aliasing, extract metrics information, and extract the outlines of characters in scalable formats like TrueType.

Please see Font::FreeType.

Scripts

font-say

font-say [--resolution=<Int>] [--pixels=<Int] [--kern] [--hint] [--ascend=<Int>] [--descend=<Int>] [--char-spacing=<Int>] [--word-spacing=<Int>] [--bold=<Int>] [--mode=<Mode> (lcd lcd-v light mono normal)] [--verbose] <font-file> <text>

This script displays text as bitmapped characters, using a given font. For example:

% bin/font-say --hint --pixels=14 t/fonts/Vera.ttf 'FreeType!'
#######                            ##########                              ##
##                                     ##                                  ##
##      #####   ######    ######       ##    ###   ##  #######    ######   ##
##      ####    #######   #######      ##    ###  ###  #######    #######  ##
######  ##     ###   ##  ###   ##      ##     ##  ###  ##   ##   ###   ##  ##
##      ##     ########  ########      ##     ### ##   ##   ###  ########  ##
##      ##     ###       ###           ##      #####   ##   ###  ###
##      ##     ###       ###           ##      ####    ##   ##   ###
##      ##      #######   #######      ##      ####    #######    #######  ##
##      ##       ######    ######      ##       ###    #######     ######  ##
                                                ##     ##
                                               ###     ##
                                              ###      ##

Install

Font::FreeType depends on the freetype native library, so you must install that prior to using this module.

Debian/Ubuntu Linux

sudo apt-get install freetype6-dev

Alpine Linux

doas apk add freetype-dev

Max OS X

brew update
brew install freetype

Windows

This module uses prebuilt DLLs on Windows. No additional configuration is needed.

Testing

To checkout and test this module from the Git repository:

$ git checkout https://github.com/pdf-raku/Font-FreeType-raku.git
$ zef build .  # -OR- raku Build.rakumod
$ prove -e'raku -I .' -v t

Authors

Geoff Richards qef@laxan.com

Ivan Baidakou dmol@cpan.org

David Warring david.warring@gmail.com (Raku Port)

Copyright

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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