Re: Pango: how to call the API?

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

Hi,

This is a strange question. The fact that you want to "call
pango from the command line" makes me wonder what you're
trying to do. 

If you want to get the width of every character in a font,
the most obvious way is to create a layout, set the font,
set the text, measure the layout extents, repeat 1114111
times. But you don't want to do that.

What are you trying to do?

Noah


On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 23:41:54 -0700, Zitan Broth wrote:
> 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.
> 
>