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[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) 4. / 5. forlabs/php-font-lib ActiveLibrary[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) forlabs/php-font-lib ==================== A library to read, parse, export and make subsets of different types of font files. 0.1.0(3y ago)0231LGPL-3.0PHP Since May 15Pushed 3y agoCompare [ Source](https://github.com/dpiquet/php-font-lib)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/forlabs/php-font-lib)[ Docs](https://github.com/PhenX/php-font-lib)[ RSS](/packages/forlabs-php-font-lib/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced today READMEChangelog (1)Dependencies (1)Versions (2)Used By (1) [![PHPUnit tests](https://github.com/dompdf/php-font-lib/actions/workflows/phpunit.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/dompdf/php-font-lib/actions/workflows/phpunit.yml) PHP Font Lib ============ [](#php-font-lib) This library can be used to: - Read TrueType, OpenType (with TrueType glyphs), WOFF font files - Extract basic info (name, style, etc) - Extract advanced info (horizontal metrics, glyph names, glyph shapes, etc) - Make an Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) file from a font This project was initiated by the need to read font files in the [DOMPDF project](https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf). Usage Example ------------- [](#usage-example) ### Base font information [](#base-font-information) ``` $font = \FontLib\Font::load('fontfile.ttf'); $font->parse(); // for getFontWeight() to work this call must be done first! echo $font->getFontName() .''; echo $font->getFontSubfamily() .''; echo $font->getFontSubfamilyID() .''; echo $font->getFontFullName() .''; echo $font->getFontVersion() .''; echo $font->getFontWeight() .''; echo $font->getFontPostscriptName() .''; $font->close(); ``` ### Font Metrics Generation [](#font-metrics-generation) ``` $font = FontLib\Font::load('fontfile.ttf'); $font->parse(); $font->saveAdobeFontMetrics('fontfile.ufm'); ``` ### Create a font subset [](#create-a-font-subset) ``` $font = FontLib\Font::load('fontfile.ttf'); $font->parse(); $font->setSubset("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.:,;' (!?)+-*/== 1234567890"); // characters to include $font->reduce(); touch('fontfile.subset.ttf'); $font->open('fontfile.subset.ttf', FontLib\BinaryStream::modeReadWrite); $font->encode(array("OS/2")); $font->close(); ``` ### Health Score 20 — LowBetter than 13% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity6 Limited adoption so far Community20 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity34 Early-stage or recently created project Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 65.1% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. 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