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NAME
Font::TTF::Glyph - Holds a information for a single glyph
DESCRIPTION
This is a single glyph description as held in a TT font. On creation only its header is read. Thus you
can get the bounding box of each glyph without having to read all the other information.
INSTANCE VARIABLES
In addition to the named variables in a glyph header ("xMin" etc.), there are also all capital instance
variables for holding working information, mostly from the location table.
Variables for all glyphs:
The standard attributes each glyph has are:
numberOfContours
For simple glyphs this will be the count of contours. For compound glyphs this will be -1.
xMin
yMin
xMax
yMax
These identify the bounding box of the glyph.
There are also other, derived, instance variables for each glyph which are read when the whole glyph is
read (via "read_dat"):
instLen
Number of bytes in the hinting instructions (Warning this variable is deprecated, use
"length($g-"{'hints'})> instead).
hints
The string containing the hinting code for the glyph
Variables for simple glyphs (numberOfContours >= 0):
endPoints
An array of endpoints for each contour in the glyph. There are "numberOfContours" contours in a
glyph. The number of points in a glyph is equal to the highest endpoint of a contour.
numPoints
This is a generated value which contains the total number of points for this simple glyph.
There are also a number of arrays indexed by point number:
flags
The flags associated with reading this point. The flags for a point are recalculated for a point when
it is "update"d. Thus the flags are not very useful. The only important bit is bit 0 which indicates
whether the point is an 'on' curve point, or an 'off' curve point.
x The absolute x co-ordinate of the point.
y The absolute y co-ordinate of the point
Variables for compound glyphs (numberOfContours == -1):
metric
This holds the component number (not its glyph number) of the component from which the metrics for
this glyph should be taken.
comps
This is an array of hashes for each component. Each hash has a number of elements:
glyph
The glyph number of the glyph which comprises this component of the composite. NOTE: In some
badly generated fonts, "glyph" may contain a numerical value but that glyph might not actually
exist in the font file. This could occur in any glyph, but is particularly likely for glyphs
that have no strokes, such as SPACE, U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE, or U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE.
args
An array of two arguments which may be an x, y co-ordinate or two attachment points (one on the
base glyph the other on the component). See flags for details.
flag
The flag for this component
scale
A 4 number array for component scaling. This allows stretching, rotating, etc. Note that scaling
applies to placement co-ordinates (rather than attachment points) before locating rather than
after.
numPoints
This is a generated value which contains the number of components read in for this compound glyph.
Private instance variables:
INFILE (P)
The input file form which to read any information
LOC (P)
Location relative to the start of the glyf table in the read file
BASE (P)
The location of the glyf table in the read file
LEN (P)
This is the number of bytes required by the glyph. It should be kept up to date by calling the
"update" method whenever any of the glyph content changes.
OUTLOC (P)
Location relative to the start of the glyf table. This variable is only active whilst the output
process is going on. It is used to inform the location table where the glyph is located, since the
glyf table is output before the loca table due to alphabetical ordering.
OUTLEN (P)
This indicates the length of the glyph data when it is output. This more accurately reflects the
internal memory form than the "LEN" variable which only reflects the read file length. The "OUTLEN"
variable is only set after calling "out" or "out_dat".
Editing
If you want to edit a glyph in some way, then you should read_dat the glyph, then make your changes and
then update the glyph or set the $g->{' isDirty'} variable. The application must ensure that the
following instance variables are correct, from which update will calculate the rest, including the
bounding box information.
numPoints
numberOfContours
endPoints
x, y, flags (only flags bit 0)
instLen
hints
For components, the numPoints, x, y, endPoints & flags are not required but the following information is
required for each component.
flag (bits 2, 10, 11, 12)
glyph
args
scale
metric (glyph instance variable)
METHODS
Font::TTF::Glyph->new(%parms)
Creates a new glyph setting various instance variables
$g->read
Reads the header component of the glyph (numberOfContours and bounding box) and also the glyph content,
but into a data field rather than breaking it down into its constituent structures. Use read_dat for
this.
$g->read_dat
Reads the contents of the glyph (components and curves, etc.) from the memory store "DAT" into structures
within the object.
$g->out($fh)
Writes the glyph data to outfile
$g->out_xml($context, $depth)
Outputs an XML description of the glyph
$g->dirty($val)
This sets the dirty flag to the given value or 1 if no given value. It returns the value of the flag
$g->update
Generates a "$self-"{'DAT'}> from the internal structures, if the data has been read into structures in
the first place. If you are building a glyph from scratch you will need to set the instance variable '
isDirty'.
$g->update_bbox
Updates the bounding box for this glyph according to the points in the glyph
$g->maxInfo
Returns lots of information about a glyph so that the "maxp" table can update itself. Returns array
containing contributions of this glyph to maxPoints, maxContours, maxCompositePoints,
maxCompositeContours, maxSizeOfInstructions, maxComponentElements, and maxComponentDepth.
$g->empty
Empties the glyph of all information to the level of not having been read. Useful for saving memory in
apps with many glyphs being read
$g->get_points
This method creates point information for a compound glyph. The information is stored in the same place
as if the glyph was not a compound, but since numberOfContours is negative, the glyph is still marked as
being a compound
$g->get_refs
Returns an array of all the glyph ids that are used to make up this glyph. That is all the compounds and
their references and so on. If this glyph is not a compound, then returns an empty array.
Please note the warning about bad fonts that reference nonexistent glyphs under INSTANCE VARIABLES above.
This function will not attempt to filter out nonexistent glyph numbers.
BUGS
• The instance variables used here are somewhat clunky and inconsistent with the other tables.
• "update" doesn't re-calculate the bounding box or "numberOfContours".
AUTHOR
Martin Hosken <http://scripts.sil.org/FontUtils>.
LICENSING
Copyright (c) 1998-2016, SIL International (http://www.sil.org)
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.
perl v5.34.0 2022-06-14 Font::TTF::Glyph(3pm)