PostScript::File::Metrics::Loader - Load metrics for PostScript fonts using Font::AFM

       Christopher J. Madsen  "<perl AT cjmweb.net>"

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "<bug-PostScript-File AT rt.cpan.org>" or through  the  web
       interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=PostScript-File>.

       You       can      follow      or      contribute      to      PostScript-File's      development      at
       <https://github.com/madsen/postscript-file>.

       No bugs have been reported.

       PostScript::File::Metrics::Loader requires no configuration files or environment variables.

       However, it uses Font::AFM, and unfortunately that's difficult to configure  properly  (which  is  why  I
       created  PostScript::File::Metrics  in  the  first  place).   Font::AFM  expects  to  find  a  file named
       FontName.afm in one of the directories it searches.

       I wound up creating symlinks in /usr/local/lib/afm/ (which is one of the  default  paths  that  Font::AFM
       searches if you don't have a "METRICS" environment variable):

        Courier.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/courier/pcrr8a.afm
        Courier-Bold.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/courier/pcrb8a.afm
        Courier-BoldOblique.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/courier/pcrbo8a.afm
        Courier-Oblique.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/courier/pcrro8a.afm
        Helvetica.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/helvetic/phvr8a.afm
        Helvetica-Bold.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/helvetic/phvb8a.afm
        Helvetica-BoldOblique.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/helvetic/phvbo8a.afm
        Helvetica-Oblique.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/helvetic/phvro8a.afm
        Symbol.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/symbol/psyr.afm
        Times-Bold.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/times/ptmb8a.afm
        Times-BoldItalic.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/times/ptmbi8a.afm
        Times-Italic.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/times/ptmri8a.afm
        Times-Roman.afm
          -> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/times/ptmr8a.afm

       Paths  on  your  system  may  vary.   I  suggest  searching  for ".afm" files, and then grepping them for
       "FontName X", where X is the font you need metrics for.

       This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Christopher J. Madsen.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under  the  same  terms  as  the  Perl  5
       programming language system itself.

       PostScript::File::Metrics::Loader is used by PostScript::File::Metrics when no pre-compiled metrics are
       available for the requested font or encoding.  It uses Font::AFM to read the AFM file and extract metrics
       from it.

       You should not normally need to use this module, since pre-compiled metrics for the standard PostScript
       fonts are included with this distribution.  If you request metrics for a non-standard font,
       PostScript::File::Metrics will load this module automatically.

       If you need metrics for additional fonts, you may want to modify and run examples/generate_metrics.pl to
       create pre-compiled modules for them.

       "Can't find definition for %s"
           If this happens, it indicates you found a bug in PostScript::File::Metrics::Loader.  Please report it
           as described under "AUTHOR".

       "Can't find the AFM file for %s"
           Font::AFM  could  not  find  %s.afm  in  any  of the directories it searched.  See "CONFIGURATION AND
           ENVIRONMENT".

       "Invalid term %s in %s"
           This also indicates a bug in PostScript::File.  Please report it.

       "Unknown encoding %s"
           You asked for an encoding that PostScript::File::Metrics doesn't know about.

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perl v5.36.0                                       2022-10-14             PostScript::File::Metrics::Loader(3pm)

       None reported.

       PostScript::File::Metrics::Loader - Load metrics for PostScript fonts using Font::AFM

get_encoding_vector
         PostScript::File::Metrics::Loader::get_encoding_vector($encoding)

       This returns the encoding vector for $encoding, an arrayref of 256 glyph names.

   load
         PostScript::File::Metrics::Loader::load($font, \@encodings)

       This uses Font::AFM to read the metrics for $font, and creates width tables for each of the @encodings.
       The metrics are stored into the hashes used internally by PostScript::File::Metrics.

       This document describes version 2.20 of PostScript::File::Metrics::Loader, released October 10, 2015 as
       part of PostScript-File version 2.23.