Hi, I'm trying to get my head around computing a font size that I should use to fill in a box, so the letters actually fit into that box.
I know the height of the box, in pixels. From what I understood, the font point is 1/72 of an inch. My display shows 75 dpi as it's vertical resolution. Which makes my pixel to be almost a point (96% of a point). But, somehow, if I set the absolute font size to be 25 pixel font, it gives me 27.5 ascent and 7.2 descent values. So, I guess, that's what I don't know: - is ascent/descent returned in points or pixels ? (I think it's points) - what is the Pango font size, and is it portable across rendering engines ? Now, that really to me seems to be a very basic question that I can't find any easy answer for :). The common definition of a font size seems to vary from a measurement of a specific letter, to the actual distance between max ascent and max descent. Pango's font size doesn't seem to be the later at least... Thanks ! Pawel. Bye. -- Pawel S. Veselov [vps], Sun Microsystems, Inc. Senior Staff Engineer, Consumer and Mobile Systems group. __ __(O) _ __ (408) 276-5410 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ V /| || ' \ fax(408) 276-6090 HomePage: http://manticore.2y.net \_/ |_||_|_|_| _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list