Re: Question about "getting" font width values for same-font characters
Re: Question about "getting" font width values for same-font characters
- Subject: Re: Question about "getting" font width values for same-font characters
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:40:07 -0800
At 04:52p -0700 02/08/2004, steve harley didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
on 7 Feb 2004, at 3:31 PM, Macintosh info wrote:
what i did was build tables (in Visual FoxPro) of each field's
typeface & point size; plus the width of each character in each font
used at a size of one point..
Funny, I immediately thought of FoxPro and its AFONT() and TXTWIDTH()
functions when I saw this thread, but wasn't going to mention it due
to FP's early death.
eventually, i'd rather derive these font metrics in Frontier or
Python, but i don't offhand know a way to use Smile's MeasureTextBox
from outside of Smile, so i may be reduced to working with system
frameworks in Python
Could you provide those metrics databases in a tab-delimited format?
Did you record info for a lot of fonts?
thanks,
-Walter
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