# $Id: Text.pm,v 1.23 2000/09/18 08:39:47 mgjv Exp $ package GD::Text; $GD::Text::prog_version = '$Revision: 1.23 $' =~ /\s([\d.]+)/; $GD::Text::VERSION = '0.80'; =head1 NAME GD::Text - Text utilities for use with GD =head1 SYNOPSIS use GD; use GD::Text; my $gd_text = GD::Text->new() or die GD::Text::error(); $gd_text->set_font('funny.ttf', 12) or die $gd_text->error; $gd_text->set_font(gdTinyFont); $gd_text->set_font(GD::Font::Tiny); ... $gd_text->set_text($string); my ($w, $h) = $gd_text->get('width', 'height'); if ($gd_text->is_ttf) { ... } Or alternatively my $gd_text = GD::Text->new( text => 'Some text', font => 'funny.ttf', ptsize => 14, ); =head1 DESCRIPTION This module provides a font-independent way of dealing with text in GD, for use with the GD::Text::* modules and GD::Graph. =head1 NOTES As with all Modules for Perl: Please stick to using the interface. If you try to fiddle too much with knowledge of the internals of this module, you could get burned. I may change them at any time. You can only use TrueType fonts with version of GD > 1.20, and then only if compiled with support for this. If you attempt to do it anyway, you will get errors. =head1 METHODS =cut use strict; use GD; use Carp; use vars qw($FONT_PATH @FONT_PATH $OS); BEGIN { $FONT_PATH = $ENV{FONT_PATH} || $ENV{TTF_FONT_PATH} || ''; unless ($OS = $^O) { require Config; $OS = $Config::Config{'os_name'}; } } my $ERROR; =head2 GD::Text->new( attrib => value, ... ) Create a new object. See the C method for attributes. =cut sub new { my $proto = shift; my $class = ref($proto) || $proto; my $self = { type => 'builtin', font => gdSmallFont, ptsize => 10, }; bless $self => $class; $self->set(@_) or return; return $self } =head2 GD::Text::error() or $gd_text->error(); Return the last error that occured in the class. This may be imperfect. =cut # XXX This sucks! fix it sub error { $ERROR }; sub _set_error { $ERROR = shift }; =head2 $gd_text->set_font( font, size ) Set the font to use for this string. The arguments are either a GD builtin font (like gdSmallFont or GD::Font->Small) or the name of a TrueType font file and the size of the font to use. See also L<"font_path">. If you are not using an absolute path to the font file, you can leave of the .ttf file extension, but you have to append it for absolute paths: $gd_text->set_font('cetus', 12); # but $gd_text->set_font('/usr/fonts/cetus.ttf', 12); The first argument can be a reference to an array of fonts. The first font from the array that can be found will be used. This allows you to do something like $gd_text->font_path( '/usr/share/fonts:/usr/fonts'); $gd_text->set_font( ['verdana', 'arial', gdMediumBoldFont], 14); if you'd prefer verdana to be used, would be satisfied with arial, but if none of that is available just want to make sure you can fall back on something that will be available. Returns true on success, false on error. =cut sub set_font { my $self = shift; my $fonts = shift; my $size = shift; # Make sure we have a reference to an array $fonts = [$fonts] unless ref($fonts) eq 'ARRAY'; foreach my $font (@{$fonts}) { my $rc = ref($font) && $font->isa('GD::Font') ? $self->_set_builtin_font($font) : $self->_set_TTF_font($font, $size) ; return $rc if $rc; } return; } sub _set_builtin_font { my $self = shift; my $font = shift; $self->{type} = 'builtin'; $self->{font} = $font; $self->{ptsize} = 0; $self->_recalc(); return 1; } sub _find_TTF { my $font = shift || return; local $FONT_PATH = $FONT_PATH; # XXX MOVE A LOT OF THIS INTO THE font_path SUB, filling the # @FONT_PATH array my ($psep, $dsep); if ($OS =~ /^MS(DOS|Win)/i) { # Fix backslashes $font =~ s#\\#/#g; # Check for absolute path $font =~ m#^([A-Za-z]:|/)# and return $font; $FONT_PATH =~ s#\\#/#g; # XXX move to set_font_path? $psep = '/'; $dsep = ';'; } =pod elsif ($OS =~ /^MacOS/i) { # Check for absolute path $font =~ /:/ and $font !~ /^:/ and return $font; $psep = ':'; $dsep = ','; } elsif ($OS =~ /^AmigaOS/i) { # What's an absolute path here? $psep = '/'; $dsep = ':'; # XXX ? } elsif ($OS =~ /^VMS/i) { # What's an absolute path here? $psep = '/'; $dsep = ':'; } =cut else { # Default to Unix # Check for absolute path substr($font, 0, 1) eq '/' and return $font; $psep = '/'; $dsep = ':'; } # If we don't have a font path set, we look in the current directory # only. if ($FONT_PATH) { # We have a font path, and a relative path to the font file. # Let's see if the current directory is in the font path. If # not, put it at the front. $FONT_PATH = ".$dsep$FONT_PATH" unless $FONT_PATH eq '.' || $FONT_PATH =~ /^\.$dsep/ || $FONT_PATH =~ /$dsep\.$/ || $FONT_PATH =~ /$dsep\.$dsep/; } else { # XXX what about MacOS? It doesn't work like this on MacOS. $FONT_PATH = '.'; } # Let's search for it for my $path (split /$dsep/, $FONT_PATH) { # XXX Can I use File::Basename for this? my $file = "$path$psep$font"; #print "Trying $file\n"; -f $file and return $file; # See if we can find one with a .ttf at the end $file = "$path$psep$font.ttf"; -f $file and return $file; } return; } sub _set_TTF_font { my $self = shift; my $font = shift; my $size = shift; $ERROR = "TrueType fonts require a point size", return unless (defined $size && $size > 0); return unless $self->can_do_ttf; my $font_file = _find_TTF($font) or $ERROR = "Cannot find TTF font: $font", return; # Check that the font exists and is a real TTF font my @bb = GD::Image->stringTTF(0, $font_file, $size, 0, 0, 0, "foo"); $ERROR = $@, return unless @bb; $self->{type} = 'ttf'; $self->{font} = $font_file; $self->{ptsize} = $size; $self->_recalc(); return 1; } =head2 $gd_text->set_text('some text') Set the text to operate on. Returns true on success and false on error. =cut sub set_text { my $self = shift; my $text = shift; $ERROR = "No text set", return unless defined $text; $self->{text} = $text; $self->_recalc_width(); } =head2 $gd_text->set( attrib => value, ... ) The set method provides a convenience replacement for the various other C methods. Valid attributes are: =over 4 =item text The text to operate on, see also C. =item font, ptsize The font to use and the point size. The point size is only used for TrueType fonts. Also see C. =back Returns true on success, false on any error, even if it was partially successful. When an error is returned, no guarantees are given about the correctness of the attributes. =cut # We use this to save a few CPU cycles my $recalc = 1; sub set { my $self = shift; $ERROR = "Incorrect attribute list", return if @_%2; my %args = @_; $ERROR = ''; $recalc = 0; foreach (keys %args) { /^text$/i and do { $self->set_text($args{$_}); next; }; /^font$/i and do { $self->set_font($args{$_}, $self->{ptsize}) or return; next; }; /^ptsize$/i and do { $self->{ptsize} = $args{$_}; next; }; $ERROR .= " '$_'"; } $recalc = 1; $self->_recalc(); if ($ERROR ne '') { $ERROR = "Illegal attribute(s):$ERROR"; return; } return 1; } =head2 $gd_text->get( attrib, ... ) Get the value of an attribute. Return a list of the attribute values in list context, and the value of the first attribute in scalar context. The attributes that can be retrieved are all the ones that can be set, and: =over 4 =item width, height The width (height) of the string in pixels =item space The width of a space in pixels =item char_up, char_down The number of pixels that a character can stick out above and below the baseline. Note that this is only useful for TrueType fonts. For builtins char_up is equal to height, and char_down is always 0. =back Note that some of these parameters (char_up, char_down and space) are generic font properties, and not necessarily a property of the text that is set. =cut sub get { my $self = shift; my @wanted = map $self->{$_}, @_; wantarray ? @wanted : $wanted[0]; } =head2 $gd_text->width('string') Return the length of a string in pixels, without changing the current value of the text. Returns the width of 'string' rendered in the current font and size. On failure, returns undef. The use of this method is vaguely deprecated. =cut sub width { my $self = shift; my $string = shift; my $save = $self->get('text'); $self->set_text($string) or return; my $w = $self->get('width'); $self->set_text($save); return $w; } # Here we do the real work. See the documentation for the get method to # find out which attributes need to be set and/or reset sub _recalc_width { my $self = shift; return unless $recalc; return unless (defined $self->{text} && $self->{font}); if ($self->is_builtin) { $self->{'width'} = $self->{font}->width() * length($self->{text}); } elsif ($self->is_ttf) { my @bb1 = GD::Image->stringTTF(0, $self->{font}, $self->{ptsize}, 0, 0, 0, $self->{text}); $self->{'width'} = $bb1[2] - $bb1[0]; } else { confess "Impossible error in GD::Text::_recalc."; } } my ($test_string, $space_string, $n_spaces); BEGIN { # Build a string of all characters that are printable, and that are # not whitespace. eval { require POSIX; import POSIX; $test_string = join '', grep isgraph($_), map chr($_), (0x00..0xFF); }; if ($@) { # Most likely POSIX is not available. # Let's try to emulate isgraph(). This may be wrong at times. $test_string = join '', map chr($_), (0x21..0x7e, 0xa1..0xff); } $space_string = $test_string; # Put a space every 5 characters, and count how many there are $n_spaces = $space_string =~ s/(.{5})(.{5})/$1 $2/g; } sub _recalc { my $self = shift; return unless $recalc; return unless $self->{font}; if ($self->is_builtin) { $self->{height} = $self->{char_up} = $self->{font}->height(); $self->{char_down} = 0; $self->{space} = $self->{font}->width(); } elsif ($self->is_ttf) { my @bb1 = GD::Image->stringTTF(0, $self->{font}, $self->{ptsize}, 0, 0, 0, $test_string) or return; my @bb2 = GD::Image->stringTTF(0, $self->{font}, $self->{ptsize}, 0, 0, 0, $space_string); $self->{char_up} = -$bb1[7]; $self->{char_down} = $bb1[1]; $self->{height} = $self->{char_up} + $self->{char_down}; # XXX Should we really round this? $self->{space} = sprintf "%.0f", (($bb2[2]-$bb2[0]) - ($bb1[2]-$bb1[0]))/$n_spaces; } else { confess "Impossible error in GD::Text::_recalc."; } $self->_recalc_width() if $self->{text}; return 1; } =head2 $gd_text->is_builtin Returns true if the current object is based on a builtin GD font. =cut sub is_builtin { my $self = shift; return $self->{type} eq 'builtin'; } =head2 $gd_text->is_ttf Returns true if the current object is based on a TrueType font. =cut sub is_ttf { my $self = shift; return $self->{type} eq 'ttf'; } =head2 $gd_text->can_do_ttf() or GD::Text->can_do_ttf() Return true if this object can handle TTF fonts. This depends on whether your version of GD is newer than 1.19 and has TTF support compiled into it. =cut sub can_do_ttf { my $proto = shift; # Just see whether there is a stringTTF method at all GD::Image->can('stringTTF') or return; # Let's check whether TTF support has been compiled in. We don't # need to worry about providing a real font. The following will # always fail, but we'll check the message to see why it failed GD::Image->stringTTF(0, 'foo', 10, 0, 0, 0, 'foo'); # Error message: libgd was not built with TrueType font support $@ =~ /TrueType font support/i and return; # Well.. It all seems to be fine return 1; } =head2 $gd_text->font_path(path_spec), GD::Text->font_path(path_spec) This sets the font path for the I (i.e. not just for the object). The C method will search this path to find the font specified if it is a TrueType font. It should contain a list of paths. The current directory is always searched first, unless '.' is present in FONT_PATH. Examples: GD::Text->font_path('/usr/ttfonts'); # Unix GD::Text->font_path('c:/fonts'); # MS-OS Any font name that is not an absolute path will first be looked for in the current directory, and then in /usr/ttfonts (c:\fonts). GD::Text->font_path('/usr/ttfonts:.:lib/fonts'); # Unix GD::Text->font_path('c:/fonts;.;f:/fonts'); # MS-OS Any font name that is not an absolute path will first be looked for in /usr/ttfonts (c:\fonts), then in the current directory. and then in lib/fonts (f:\fonts), relative to the current directory. GD::Text->font_path(undef); Font files are only looked for in the current directory. FONT_PATH is initialised at module load time from the environment variables FONT_PATH or, if that's not present, TTF_FONT_PATH. Returns the value the font path is set to. If called without arguments C returns the current font path. Note: This currently only works for unices, and (hopefully) for Microsoft based OS's. If anyone feels the urge to have a look at the code, and send me patches for their OS, I'd be most grateful) =cut sub font_path { my $proto = shift; if (@_) { $FONT_PATH = shift; if ($FONT_PATH) { # clean up a bit $FONT_PATH =~ s/^:+//; $FONT_PATH =~ s/:+$//; } } $FONT_PATH; } =head1 BUGS This module has only been tested with anglo-centric 'normal' fonts and encodings. Fonts that have other characteristics may not work well. If that happens, please let me know how to make this work better. The font height gets estimated by building a string with all printable characters that pass the POSIX::isgraph() test. If your system doesn't have POSIX, I make an approximation that may be false. The whole font path thing works well on Unix, but probably not very well on other OS's. This is only a problem if you try to use a font path. If you don't use a font path, there should never be a problem. I will try to expand this in the future, but only if there's a demand for it. Suggestions welcome. =head1 COPYRIGHT copyright 1999 Martien Verbruggen (mgjv@comdyn.com.au) =head1 SEE ALSO GD(3), GD::Text::Wrap(3), GD::Text::Align(3) =cut 1;