Re: character width

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:23:24PM -0600, Maximo Pech wrote:
> how can i get the width of a char in pixels? this is depending on the font i'm using of course.

With

pango_layout_get_pixels_extents(layout,
                                &physical_rectangle,
                                &logical_rectangle);

on a Pango layout containing the character in question and
then

physical_rectangle.width
logical_rectangle.width

depending on whether you are interested in logical character
boundary or boundary of area contatining the glyph (ink
boundary).

Well, I assume you use Pango to render text; if you don't
you'd better give more information if you want a reasonable
answer.

Yeti


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