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From: pds@quintus (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XTextExtents() vs. XQueryTextExtents()
Message-ID: <911@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 89 03:05:50 GMT
Sender: news@quintus.UUCP
Reply-To: pds@quintus (Peter Schachte)
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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If one has done the requisite XQueryFont(), and so has the XFontStruct
in the client process, is there EVERY any reason to use
XQueryTextExtents() over XTextExtents()?  Does XQueryTextExtents()
ALWAYS return the same results as XTextExtents()?  I'm looking for any
difference, even obscure.

TIA,
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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