Yeah I see what you mean. In addition to a drawText you probably
want something like a metricsForText API that would tell you the
extent of the string and the font metrics (line height, ascent,
descent, baseline).
dave
On Oct 25, 2006, at 3:10 AM, James Graham wrote:
David Hyatt wrote:
I'm very reluctant to expose font metrics and information (yet).
I think once you start getting into specifying fonts, you open up
a can of worms that would make this sort of API addition a lot
harder.
I still believe that any api that does not allow the author to
query the size of the text bounding-box[1], i.e. the overall width
and height of the box enclosing the text fragment, is useless for
many of the use cases presented so far e.g. figure labelling as,
without this information, it is impossible to ensure that adjacent
text fragments do not overlap.
[1] I mean that in a non-technical sense
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