Paulo:

Are you sure this is right? Here's an excerpt from Bruno's book, (p. 229):

"In glyph space, 1000 units corresponds with 1 unit in text space. For
instance, for a 12-point font, 1000 units corresponds with 12 pts."

Thanks in advance for any clarification.

---mr. bean


Paulo Soares-3 wrote:
> 
> 1000 units corresponds to 1 unit in text space. 1 unit in text space is
> 1/72 inch.
> 
> Paulo 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: p_repetti [mailto:pierangelo.repe...@gmail.com] 
>> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:49 PM
>> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [iText-questions] fixed width units for font
>> 
>> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> I am looking at the "Fixed Font Width" example presented in 
>> the web site
>> tutorial. I just can't figure out what the value assigned to 
>> the width array
>> stands for (1000). I guess it can't be in PDF units, since it 
>> would then
>> result into 1000/72=13.88 inches and that looks absurd when 
>> looking at the
>> resulting PDF.
>> In what units is it expressed ?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Pierangelo
> 
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