Re: width of string rendered by pango font?

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

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:20:37PM -0400, David Morse wrote:
> How does one figure out the width of a certain string in a certain pango font?

Create a PangoLayout, set the font and text, and then you
can use pango_layout_get_extents() or
pango_layout_get_pixel_extents() to get the dimensions.

Yeti


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