Found it ....

in the PDF/API2/Resource/Font/CoreFont/courier.pm file I changed 

    'fontname' => 'Courier',

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to

   'fontname' => 'Courier-New',

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and I added -New, in the other three courier-related files 

'fontname' => 'Courier-New,Oblique',

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'fontname' => 'Courier-New,Bold',

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'fontname' => 'Courier-New,BoldOblique',

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and now all is right with the world!

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I'm wondering if it is just me ...

I recently had need for the Courier font in some PDF output. I have been trying to use the corefonts in PDF::API2 but can't seem to get anything other than Courier-Oblique for output. The other corefonts seem to render fine. Here is a mini test program: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use PDF::API2;

my @fonts = qw(
   Courier 
   Courier-Bold 
   Courier-BoldOblique 
   Courier-Oblique 
   Verdana 
   Times 
   Times-BoldItalic 
   Georgia 
   Georgia-Bold 
);

my $pdf  = PDF::API2->new;
my $page = $pdf->page;
my $text = $page->text;

my $y = 700;
$text->translate( 100, $y );

foreach my $f (@fonts) {
    my $cft = $pdf->corefont($f);
    $text->font( $cft, 12 );
    $text->text($f);

    $y -= 15;
    $text->translate( 100, $y );
}

$pdf->saveas('pdftest.pdf');
$pdf->end();

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I have tested this on a couple of my Linux boxes and always get the same result -- four lines of Courier-Oblique on the top. Any ideas where I might be going wrong?

Thanks, Robert M.

In reply to [SOLVED] PDF::API2 and the Elusive Courier Font by rsmeineke

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