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.