Font::TTF::Prep(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Font::TTF::Prep(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

Font::TTF::Prep - Preparation hinting program. Called when ppem changes

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

This is a minimal class adding nothing beyond a table, but is a repository for prep type information for those processes brave enough to address hinting.

## [$t->read](#$t)

Reads the data using "read\_dat".

## $t->out\_xml($context, $depth)

Outputs Prep program as XML

## $t->XML\_end($context, $tag, %attrs)

Parse all that hinting code

# [BUGS](#BUGS)

None known

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Martin Hosken <http://scripts.sil.org/FontUtils>.

# [LICENSING](#LICENSING)

Copyright (c) 1998-2016, SIL International (http://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 LICENSE.

2026-09-25 perl v5.44.0

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Document: Font::TTF::Prep(3pm) from perl-font-ttf 1.06-r0 (Chainguard OS)