Font::TTF::Dumper (3)

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NAME

Font::TTF::Dumper - Debug dump of a font datastructure, avoiding recursion on ' PARENT'

SYNOPSIS

    use Font::TTF::Dumper;
    
    # Print a table from the font structure:
    print ttfdump($font->{$tag});
    
    # Print font table with name
    print ttfdump($font->{'head'}, 'head');
    
    # Print one glyph's data:
    print ttfdump($font->{'loca'}->read->{'glyphs'}[$gid], "glyph_$gid");

DESCRIPTION

Font::TTF data structures are trees created from hashes and arrays. When trying to figure out how the structures work, sometimes it is helpful to use Data::Dumper on them. However, many of the object structures have ' ' links that refer back to the object's parent, which means that Data::Dumper ends up dumping the whole font no matter what.

The purpose of this module is to do just one thing: invoke Data::Dumper with a filter that skips over the '

' element of any hash.

To reduce output further, this module also skips over '

' elements and any hash element whose value is a Font::TTF::Glyph or Font::TTF::Font object. (Really should make this configurable.)

AUTHOR

Bob Hallissy <scripts.sil.org/FontUtils>.

LICENSING

Copyright (c) 1998-2014, International (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