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Libnetpbm PPM Drawing Function Manual

Updated: September 2005

Table Of Contents

This reference manual covers functions in the libnetpbm library for drawing
images, using the PPM image format and the libnetpbm in-memory image
formats.

We actually have very little information here; this is mainly a framework
for adding documentation later if someone becomes interested in this
facility.

The Functions

The functions are all declared in the ppmdraw.h header file.

ppmd_point_drawproc

ppmd_setlinetype

ppmd_setlineclip

ppmd_line

ppmd_spline3

ppmd_polyspline

ppmd_circle

ppmd_filledrectangle

ppmd_fill_init

ppmd_fill_drawproc

ppmd_fill

ppmd_text

ppmd_text_box

Fonts

The ppmd_text and ppmd_text_box functions use fonts. You control the fonts
using functions described in this section. There is one font that comes with
Netpbm, called "standard". It is built into the function library and is the
default font. You can create additional fonts and use them instead.

In a program that uses Netpbm drawing facilities, there is a "current font."
all drawing of text uses the current font. When the program starts, the
current font is "standard"; you can change it after that by calling the
ppmd_setfont function.

Other than a built-in font, a font lives in file in a format special to
Netpbm called Ppmdfont. The file typically has a name that ends in
".ppmdfont".

Use the ppmddumpfont program to dump the contents of a Ppmdfont file in
human readable format.

Use the ppmdmkfont program to generate the "standard" font as a Ppmdfont
file. You don’t normally need to do this, becuase "standard" is built into
libnetpbm.

Use the ppmdcfont program to turn a Ppmdfont file into a C source file that
you can compile into a program as a built-in font. Though we don’t give full
instructions here on how to do that, libnetpbm’s built-in "standard" font is
a good example. In Netpbm source code, you will find the C source file
standardppmdfont.c, which was generated from the file standard.ppmdfont by
ppmdcfont. You simply use a pointer to the structure that the C file defines
as a font handle, just like one you would get from ppmd_readfont.

Font File Format

The font file starts with the characters "ppmdfont" (without the quotation
marks) in ASCII.

The rest of the format is not yet documented, but it generally describes,
for each code point, a sequence of straight line plotting commands to form
the glyph for the indicated character. I.e. it is a vector, not raster,
font.

Font Control Functions

These functions are declared in the header file ppmdfont.h.

ppmd_readfont

This function associates a Ppmdfont file, which you identify by naming the
Ppmdfont file, with a handle that you can use to identify the font to other
functions. Technically, this function reads the font into memory.

ppmd_freefont

This function releases the handle that you get from ppmd_readfont. It frees
resources associated with it; you can’t use the handle after this.

ppmd_getfont

This function returns the handle of the currently selected font.

ppmd_setfont

This function sets the currently selected font. You identify the font to
which to set it with a handle such as you get from ppmd_readfont or
ppmd_getfont.
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Table Of Contents

* The Functions
* Fonts



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