height of a string

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From: Bob Mende Pie
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 21:38

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  If I have a string (String) how can I tell how high the font will be ...
What I want to do is have do somthing like this (please escuse the pseudo
postscript)

100 100 moveto
currentpoint (string 1) show moveto
0 (string 1) stringheight rmoveto
(string 2) show 

notes:
	string stringheight => int 	% returns height of string

Output:
	string 2
	string 1	

   The stringwidth operator return s X and a Y value, but the y seems only
0 unless the font is rotated.

If anyone knows how to use the information in the /fontBBox to get this I
would like to know... it seems to return numbers that are no in any
coordinate system that I can use.


					/Bob...
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					/Bob...
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Subject: height of a string
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