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Article #12193Re: Windows Fonts
From: Peter Below (TeamB)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:18
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:18
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In article <3dde62a7@newsgroups.borland.com>, Camiel Wijffels wrote: > I'm building an app to design page layout, including text. This text should > be scaled, so what I need is a text-drawing function with scaling ability. > For example, I need to draw the text 'hello', 300 pixels wide. Next time I > would like to draw the same text at 301 pixels wide, or 307, or 312 (these > figures are purely random). It is possible - many professional packages > (like WP, Word and CorelDraw) have this ability. It is difficult to achieve this kind of precision if you try to do it by scaling the font size, especially if you are using a proportional font. IMO it is better to draw the text to a metafile canvas first, determine its *actual* width on the metafile canvas (using TextWidth), then draw the metafile scaled isotropically to the final display surface. -- Peter Below (TeamB) Use the newsgroup archives : http://www.mers.com/searchsite.html http://www.tamaracka.com/search.htm http://groups.google.com http://www.prolix.be
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f94dd,cd35213a00f4b682 X-Google-Attributes: gidf94dd,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-23 03:15:33 PST Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 11:18:58 +0100 Newsgroups: borland.public.delphi.nativeapi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Virtual Access by Atlantic Coast PLC, http://www.atlantic-coast.com/va Organization: TeamB Message-ID: <VA.0000966e.003ca86c@antispam.compuserve.com> Subject: Re: Windows Fonts From: "Peter Below (TeamB)" <100113.1101@compuXXserve.com> Reply-To: 100113.1101@compuXXserve.com References: <3dde62a7@newsgroups.borland.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.177.2.54 X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1038046727 172.177.2.54 (23 Nov 2002 02:18:47 -0800) Lines: 24 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!fu-berlin.de!news.uni-x.net!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail