Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
Does anybody else excluding Paul know what negative fonts sizes mean?
I admit a little explenation would help since it is not so trivial.
A positive fontsize is the size of a font in points
A negative fontsize is the size of a font in points including the
internal leading at the top of the line
For fontheights it is the opposite since the height and size are
related like:
fontsize = -fontheight * 72/pixelsperinch
This seems not to be a general concept (Windows only?).
This is how it is defined in delphi. Lazarus tries to be compatible with
that.
While searching
for negative font sizes on the web I found this:
http://cfsearching.blogspot.com/2008/03/imagedrawtext-negative-font-sizes-give.html
which shows a completely different effect when using negative font sizes.
Iirc Iv'e seen this on carbon too, but thats not realy relevant for lazarus.
Marc
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