Aloha, Charlie wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for a way to obtain the width of a string, either in actual > inches/centimeters, or pixels will also work. Unfortunately this seems > difficult as I'd like to keep things as close to the stock Python install as > possible, and I'm not working with Graphics or X at all.
So you need both: metrics for single characters/glyphs and con- catenated glyphs and words. > PIL = Huge for only using one function. I'm not working with any graphics. > PyFT = Everyone uses FreeType2 now, and PyFT seems dead anyhow. > PyFT2 = Does not exist. > tkinter.text() = Works with X, creates windows no matter what you do. > t1lib = Separate package, no TTF support. > t1python = Same thing as t1lib? For the glyph metrics and informations there is the ttx/fonttools project on sourceforge available. Afiar fonttools only need a Numeric installation. > Ultimately, I'm looking to take a stream of text, and break it up into lines > based on page width... and I need to know how wide (and ultimately how tall, > for page breaks) the individual glyphs are so I can break properly. If > there's > an easier way to do this than calculating individual glyph width, I'm open to > that too. It looks like a little bit that you're redeveloping TeX (in python)... > I was really just looking to see if there was anything out there that wasn't > too large or too obscure/dated. Maybe there's something lower level that > could > be done to achieve this? Is there metadata in the font that holds this > information that could be extracted? Actually there is not only meta but real data included in the font, speaking of Type1, TrueType and OpenType scalable outline fonts. Wishing a happy day LOBI -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list