Fractional Metrics

[Phil Race]

On 4/4/2014 6:41 AM, ngalarneau at ABINITIO.COM wrote:
> 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?
>

No it does not mean that.
The way to do this is to get the bounds of a Text node containing the 
string.

-phil.

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> Neil
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> 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>
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> On 4/3/14 6:13 PM, Jeff Martin wrote:
> > Is there a way to turn off FractionalMetrics in Canvas.fillText() or 
> Text?
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> No. At least not via any supported API.
> >
> > Also, does text rendering perform kerning, and if so, can I disable 
> that?
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> No.
> >
> > What I really need is to know the x position (or advance) of each 
> character in a rendered string.
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> It would need new API. And characters != glyphs. Counting char advances
> has been doomed for decades ...
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> -phil.
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> > jeff
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