Re: problem with portability of text extents

[Bogdan Butnaru <bogdanb gmail com>]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 19:55, John Ellson <ellson research att com> wrote:

I think logical_rect.y should more usefully represent the maximum ascent of any character in the font.  (Strictly, any font used in the top line of a pango layout.)

I’m sorry if this is a silly question: did you check if the two fonts don’t actually have different maximum ascents? (I can imagine the Linux one having a very tall character, like an integral or something, that doesn’t exist in the Darwin one. I’m not sure from your description if this is the same font file on both systems or just two different Times fonts.)