Size of text in outline font?

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From: Lorcan Mongey
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:48

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In article <1992Dec10.103203.23111@reks.uia.ac.be>
derijkp@reks.uia.ac.be (Peter De Rijk) writes:

> The subject sais it. Could anyone tell me how I can get the size of a
> certain string in an outline font from BASIC. (I haven't got the PRM's) 
 
DIMbuffer%&100
string$="Hello world"
$buffer%=string$
SYS "Font_FindFont",,"Trinity.Medium",16*10,16*10 TO handle%
SYS "Font_StringWidth",handle%,buffer%,&FFFF,&FFFF,-1,LEN(string$)
    TO ,,len%
PRINTlen%
 
len% is in millipoints.
 
Lorcan

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