Pango: how to call the API?

["Zitan Broth" <zitan mediasculpt net>]

Greetings Pangoneers,

Sorry for the follow up question from below, but I want to call the Pango
API and get the char width of a given font.

How do I do this?  Can I call Pango from the command-line to get this
information out, cause that would be great ?  Or do I need to write some C
code (scary) ?

I have read through the site and the docs, so I guess I'm slow -- but any
help anyone can offer is **hugely** appreciated.

Thanks heaps,

Z.


----- Original Message -----
> Hi Noah,
>
> Thanks greatly for your response :-)
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:26:11 -0700, Zitan Broth wrote:
> > >
> > > I was looking through:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/pango/pango-Fonts.html and it kinda
> looks like you can (maybe with
pango_font_metrics_get_approximate_char_width
> () ) but I was wondering if anyone could either give me a dummies approach
> or point me to an example of how to call this and let me know this is
> possible ...
> >
> > I think you found your answer. The other option is to lay out a
character
> and measure it in each font.
>
> Great looks like I've got the right idea.  Is there like a "man" page for
> Pango or some examples that will give me a better idea how to call it
(from
> the command line I guess), because I'm not so good at working from docs?
> I'll be calling it from PHP ;-)
>
> It seems Pango is quite powerful if you can do what you have suggested.
> This sounds more effective, but possible more complicated so I might go
with
> the char_width approximation to begin with :-)
>
> Thanks again,
> Zitan.
>
>
>
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