J.M. Maurer wrote:
>>The AbiWord graphics class allows one to retrieve the following
>>information for a character m_ch:
>>
>>* width (graphics->measureUnRemappedChar(m_ch))
>>* font ascent (graphics->getFontAscent())
>>* font descent (graphics->getFontDescent()))
>>
>>and these are, if I get the terminology right, in device units.
>
>
> This might be wrong, and this irritates me as well: those return
> something that are neither logical, or device usings, but something in
> between. Will look at it tonight
These are in font units, which are identical to layout units at 100%
zoom (layout units are always scaled by the zoom factor). There are
special ftlu() and ftluD() functions for converting these to layout units.
Tomas
Received on Tue May 17 14:44:13 2005
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