Image::Magick with a call to QueryFontMetrics should do the job. Ben Davis
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Moss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 7:03 AM To: Ken Y. Clark Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: font width to pixel width in perl - but also offtopic in javascript Thanks, I may well have found a solution within javascript, which is then user end calculated, so more efficient and reliable, But thanks I'll remember GD for later use:-) Marty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Y. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:55 PM Subject: Re: font width to pixel width in perl - but also offtopic in javascript | On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Martin Moss wrote: | | > Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:46:52 +0100 | > From: Martin Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Subject: font width to pixel width in perl - but also offtopic in | > javascript | > | > Hi All, | > | > I'm sure this can't be an issue that hasn't been tackled, but I couldn't | > find anything in the archives so:- | > | > I'm trying to find a way in which I can calculate the pixel width of a | > string in a given font. | > I'm doing this to feed a javascript file, so I am also looking at doing this | > in javascript also. | > | > currently all I can find is the php 'imagefontwidth' function. Does anybody | > know of an equivalent in perl? | > I remember having issues like this in TK, but not sure the solution there | > would be appropriate. | > | > I guess this is fuzzily on topic, but if anybody has any off topic | > experience I'd be greatful. any approx solutions which can 'guarentee' a | > 'larger than the minimum space required' would also suffice, e.g. is there | > an approximation which I can use based upon the maximum character width | > possible for a font etc... | > | > Regards | > | > Marty | | Just a wild guess, but perhaps you could load GD.pm and get various | font widths from there? | | ky |
