This is one way to get a FontMetrics object w/o a Graphics object StyleContext context = StyleContext.getDefaultStyleContext(); Font font = new Font(...); FontMetrics fm = context.getFontMetrics(font);
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rainer Klute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Rainer Klute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 4:23 PM Subject: Re: FontMetrics from HSSFFont? "D. Alvarado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... But now it gets tricky. There is no method in Font that returns a FontMetrics >object. You need your Graphics instance. It has a getFontMetrics(Font) method. >I suppose now I'm venturing into pure Java territory, and perhaps outside the scope of >this newsgroup/mailing list. Who cares. (Well, Andy perhaps. :-)) Best regards Rainer Klute RAINER KLUTE IT-CONSULTING Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Körner Grund 24 Telefon: +49 172 2324824 D-44143 Dortmund Telefax: +49 231 5349423