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Re: Question about "getting" font width values for same-font characters
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Re: Question about "getting" font width values for same-font characters


  • Subject: Re: Question about "getting" font width values for same-font characters
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 16:48:53 +1100

On Feb 9, 2004, at 4:26 PM, steve harley wrote:

with this correction, the value for every character matches the AFM within about a hundred thousandth of a point.. still leaves some issues like Unicode

Keep in mind that you can insert Unicode characters into InDesign using strings like "<00DB>". So you might build a simple hex counting loop, rather than a string of characters. Don't know how you'd handle missing glyphs, though.

I'd also be inclined to do it in, say, 10pt rather than 1pt, although the differences probably don't matter.

And I wonder whether the results would be any different if you just set a wide frame to test_char_set and got the horizontal offset of "every character".

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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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