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From: stanley@fozzie.phoenix.com (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Variable characters
Keywords: font, character size
Message-ID: <15N6q1w161w@fozzie.phoenix.com>
Date: 16 Oct 90 22:25:23 GMT
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shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:

> This is not true.  stringwidth returns the change in current
> point after a show of the specified string.  For Roman
> typefaces, only the x component is non-zero.  The y component

   Only too true. I once wrote some ps functions to center strings on
specified points. Y was always 0.

>  
> If metric info is not available in the font dictionary, you can
> use "charpath flattenpath pathbbox", but I think the resulting

  The results are in drawing coordinates. I.e. moving 1/2 the x value to
the left will center the string l/r.

  Unfortunately, either charpath or flattenpath has problems with certain 
fonts (Courier is on of them) which prohibits its use. I forget which
command is the problem, but it kept me from using my nice routines in a
production environment.


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