> Can I somehow determine the exact (shrunk-to-fit) bounding 
> box for a piece
> of text in a given font (helvetica, arial, times new roman, 
> courier, etc.)
> using a given font size?

Yes - see the unittests example in the test folder, in particular the
"rendering text" tab.

It shows the behaviour of fl_measure(...) and fl_text_extents(...)

It sounds like what you want is fl_text_extents() here.





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