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From: lipa@polya.Stanford.EDU (William J. Lipa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Finding the height of a character
Message-ID: <3511@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 6 Aug 88 00:26:05 GMT
References: <CMM.0.87.586818538.lipa@polya.stanford.edu> <15215@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: lipa@polya.Stanford.EDU (William J. Lipa)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <15215@apple.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.apple.com.UUCP (David Casseres) writes:
>Macintosh fonts contain no information on the dimensions of the glyphs (i.e.
>the black-pixel sets) of individual characters.

IM volume IV says that the Font Manager calculates the image-height table,
"which speeds the drawing of characters", and sticks it somewhere off in
memory. It would be nice if there was an official way to get at this table!

Bill Lipa
lipa%polya@forsythe.stanford.edu