We tried your code and the text you used worked great, but when we substituted other text, the image was not centered in the bounding box and the bounding box was too small. I think you may be right about the style not being applied properly. How would you code an if or case statement properly to use the "javaStyle" for plain, bold, and italic? I tried using Font.Bold, etc, and it didn't seem to like that (threw an error).
Using the code from Ben's original code on your site, we were able to get horizontal centering, but now we have the issue of the vertical centering not being right. If I do not have any modifier on the offset calculation, font size of 30 works great. If I drop it to 16, it is on the bottom of the box. If I subtract 5 from the calculation, it is centered. Add to that not all fonts use the same modified at the same font size (for instance, Times New Roman at 16 is centered, but Copperplate Gothic is off a bit and I have to use a mod of -6 (might have been -4...not in front of my code right now). Any ideas on how to mathematically account for this or if there is another function I can use to accommodate this variance? Eric -----Original Message----- From: Leigh [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 8:46 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: ImageUtils.cfc and CFImage Yes, that is my entry. I found the measurements are not always pixel perfect with every font. But in my experience TextLayout is a little more accurate with certain styles and characters. Keep in mind the two methods return different areas. For example, the one used by ImageUtils.cfc includes the "leading" area, whereas the TextLayout bounds does not. So it is not a straight substitution .. >> With text layout you have to further >> differentiate bold and >> italics as a BitOr operation... Well, since both use java.awt.Font objects, that is required with either method. That is what seemed a little off to me about GetTextDimensions(). I only ran a few tests, but it seemed to return the same size no matter what style was used. When I used the methods described in the entry however, I got a different width. I am not sure if this is the same font you are using, with the settings below, GetTextDimensions() returned h=31 and w=175 versus roughly h=31 and w=193 using the two (2) methods in the entry. Using "plain" returns the same h=31 and w=175. So my guess is maybe the font style is not being applied properly. <cfset text.prop = {font="BakerSignet BT Roman", size="25", style="bolditalic", javaStyle= BitOr(Font.BOLD, Font.ITALIC)}> <cfset results = util.GetTextDimensions(text="Joe's Funeral home", FontProperties=text.prop )> -Leigh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337007 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
