Fractional Metrics

[ngalarneau at ABINITIO.COM]

I'm sorry if this is redundant, but does this mean there is no way to find 
out the size (length & height) of a String as it will appear on the 
screen?

What about the size of a String as it will be printed?


Neil




From:   Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com>
To:     Jeff Martin <jeff at reportmill.com>, "openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net 
Mailing" <openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net>
Date:   04/03/2014 10:40 PM
Subject:        Re: Fractional Metrics
Sent by:        "openjfx-dev" <openjfx-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net>



On 4/3/14 6:13 PM, Jeff Martin wrote:
> Is there a way to turn off FractionalMetrics in Canvas.fillText() or 
Text?

No. At least not via any supported API.
>
> Also, does text rendering perform kerning, and if so, can I disable 
that?

No.
>
> What I really need is to know the x position (or advance) of each 
character in a rendered string.

It would need new API. And characters != glyphs. Counting char advances 
has been doomed for decades ...

-phil.

>
> jeff


 
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