Hello Chris,
On Wednesday 13 January 2010, 18:49, Chris Fleischmann wrote:
> Hello folks, just wondering if there is a more accurate way of converting
> pixels to 1/00mm in OpenOffice... Other than the 72 DPI type of calculation
> people use?
>
> Currently I do the following:
>
> if (fontDescriptor[i].Name.equalsIgnoreCase("Arial")) {
> fontDescriptor[i].Height = (short)12; // just an
> arbitrary height number.
>
> XFont xFont = xDevice.getFont(fontDescriptor[i]);
>
> width = xFont.getStringWidth(message);
>
> SimpleFontMetric simpleFontMetric =
> xFont.getFontMetric();
>
> height = simpleFontMetric.Ascent +
> simpleFontMetric.Descent +
> simpleFontMetric.Leading;
>
> break;
> }
> }
> Object shape = xWriterFactory_tmp.createInstance(
> "com.sun.star.drawing.RectangleShape");
>
> XShape xShape = (XShape) UnoRuntime.queryInterface(
> XShape.class, shape);
>
> xShape.setPosition(new Point(pageBorderLeft, pageBorderTop));
>
> int nwidth = (int)(((float)width / (float)72) * (float)2540) +
> 50; // This is what I use to convert, which works on the MAC.
> int nheight = (int)(((float)height / (float)72) * (float)2540)
> + 50; // This is what I use to convert, which works on the MAC.
>
> System.out.println("New Height: " + nheight);
> System.out.println("New Width: " + nwidth);
>
> xShape.setSize(new Size(nwidth, nheight));
>
> Now the above code works hapilly on my Apple Laptop, but when I move the
> same code over to OpenSolaris and the width calculation is way off.... the
> font is either larger or smaller depending on the height size of the font.
>
> Any advice or help, much appreciated.
did you try css.awt.XUnitConversion ?
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/common/ref/com/sun/star/awt/XUnitConversion.html
see the macros in the doc attached to
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=94067
Regards
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Ariel Constenla-Haile
La Plata, Argentina
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