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From: kl88a@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Kris Lockyear)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: letter height
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Date: 27 May 91 11:43:28 GMT
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This is a second attempt to mail this group so apologies if it appears
twice!

I want a short piece of code to find out the dimensions of a single
character. More specifically, the height from the baseline to the top
of the letter.  This is because I want to occaisionally invert a
letter in a word eg HELEN with the N upside down.  I have written the
code so that I can invert the letter, but not so I know how much
upwards I have to move it  ( the textheight used in scalefont is the
maximum height from the tail of a letter like y to the top of a
capital.)

I am not a PS hacker!  Please could you mail me direct.

Many thanks,   Kris Lockyear  kl88a@uk.ac.soton.ecs
			      kl88a@ecs.soton.ac.uk