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. :-))
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