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Article #3626get current font height or scalefont factor
From: Andy Sun Anu-guest
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 1990 23:54
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 1990 23:54
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Hi, This might be a trivial question to ask but I just couldn't find the answer on the red and blue book. Is there a command to return the current scale factor a font used in scalefont? Or better, is there a command that will return the curent height of a font? My faith in PostScript tells me that if they have stringwidth, they should have something like stringheight, but I couldn't find anything similar. I am writing something that needs to know the maximum character height of a scaled font. Ideally I want to get the maximum height of a string of a particular font, which is a local maximum depending on the characters (i.e. aero will have a smaller font height than AERO). Right now I am defining the scale explictly as a variable so that I can refer to it later but that's not flexible/intelligent enough to do the job. Any help will be appreciated. Andy _______________________________________________________________________________ Andy Sun | Internet: sun@me.utoronto.ca University of Toronto, Canada | UUCP : ...!utai!me!sun Dept. of Mechanical Engineering | BITNET : sun@me.utoronto.BITNET
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!me!sun Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript From: sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) Subject: get current font height or scalefont factor Message-ID: <90Nov10.185352est.20181@me.utoronto.ca> Organization: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Date: 10 Nov 90 23:54:08 GMT