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ddesroch@oracle.uucp (David DesRoches) writes:
: OK, so I've chosen this really cool OUTLINE font that I want to scale to say,
: 32 points.  I compute the necessary character cell dimensions, call
: GpiSetCharBox() and GpiSetCharSet() to select my new logical font.
: 
: QUESTION: How do I get the metrics for this font AT THE SELECTED POINT SIZE?
: Calling GpiQueryFontMetrics() at this point returns the same metrics structure
: I got back from my initial font query, with metrics designed around a 12 point
: font or so.
: 
: My only current idea is to compute the ratio of logical.lMaxBaselineExt to
: physical(base).lMaxBaselineExt and multiply the metrics by this ratio to
: scale them (ascent, descent, maxwidth) to the point size I'm using.  This
: seems bogus and prone to round-off error.
: 
: Am I missing something?

That's the approach I'm using.  If there is a better way, I'd like to 
know about it too.
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