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Font::TTF::Manual provides information regarding the whole module set. Font::TTF::Manual provides information regarding the whole module set.INTRODUCTIONThis document looks at the whole issue of how the various modules in the TrueType Font work together. As such it is partly information on this font system and partly information on TrueType fonts in general.Due to the inter-relation between so many tables in a TrueType font, different tables will make expectations as to which other tables exist. At the very least a font should consist of a head table and a maxp table. The system has been designed around the expectation that the necessary tables for font rendering in the Windows environment exist. But inter table dependencies have been kept to what are considered necessary.This module set is not meant as a simple to use, mindless, font editing suite, but as a low-level, get your hands dirty, know what you are doing, set of classes for those who understand the intricacies (and there are many) of TrueType fonts. To this end, if you get something wrong in the data structures, etc. then this module set won't tell you and will happily create fonts which don't work.At the time of writing, not every TrueType table in existence has been implemented! Only the core basic tables of TrueType 1.0 (i.e. no embedded bitmap tables, no postscript type tables, no OpenType tables and no GX tables) have been implemented. If you want to help by implementing another table or two, then please go ahead and send me your code. For a full list of tables, see Font::TTF::Font.Design PrinciplesPERL is not C++. C++ encourages methods to be written for changing and reading each instance variable in a class. If we did this in this PERL program the results would be rather large and slow. Instead, since most access will be read access, we expose as much of the inner storage of an object to user access directly via hash lookup. The advantage this gives are great. For example, by following an instance variable chain, looking up the yMax parameter for a particular glyph becomes: $f->{'loca'}{'glyphs'}{'yMax'}Or, if we are feeling very lazy and don't mind waiting: $f->{'loca'}{'glyphs'}{'yMax'}The disadvantage of this method is that it behoves module users to behave themselves. Thus it does not hold your hand and ensure that if you make a change to a table, that the table is marked as dirty, or that other tables are updated accordingly.It is up to the application developer to understand the implications of the changes they make to a font, and to take the necessary action to ensure that the data they get out is what they want. Thus, you could go and change the yMax value on a glyph and output a new font with this change, but it is up to you to ensure that the font's bounding box details in the head table are correct, and even that your changing yMax is well motivated.To help with using the system, each module (or table) will not only describe the methods it supports, which are relatively few, but also the instance variables it supports, which are many. Most of the variables directly reflect table attributes as specified in the OpenType specification, available from Microsoft ("www.microsoft.com/typography" in http::), Adobe and Apple. A list of the names used is also given in each module, but not necessarily with any further description. After all, this code is not a TrueType manual as well!ConventionsThere are various conventions used in this system.Firstly we consider the documentation conventions regarding instance variables. Each instance variable is marked indicating whether it is a (P)rivate variable which users of the module are not expected to read and certainly not write to or a (R)ead only variable which users may well want to read but not write to.Requirements:· Perl Requirements: · Perl

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