Also you may find this article very interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_wrap

regards


2011/4/13 Patrick Baggett <[email protected]>

> I believe the tutorial has a page for it:
> http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step2.html
>
> <http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step2.html>See section
> 4b, namely the function void compute_string_bbox( FT_BBox *abbox )
>
> It basically adds up the bounding boxes of each character.
>
> Effectively, the algorithm looks like:
> 0) M <- invalid bounding box
> 1) For each glyph G
> 1.1)     Get kerning, advance pen
> 1.2)     Get the bounding box as B
> 1.3)     Add the pen position to B
> 1.4)     Check if B is larger than the current bounding box M, if so,
> update it
> 1.5)     Advance pen by G.advance
> 2) Check if box is valid, correct if necessary
>
> The compute_string_bbox() function assumes that each character already has
> its position set (which includes kerning + advance), so if you haven't
> already computed that, use the psuedocode above will get you through.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm trying to place text over a bitmap using the function below.
>>
>> If you take a look at the function, there's a "baseline" variable, in
>> charge of adjusting the top position of the character bitmap. If I don't
>> do this, all character ar aligned to the top "pen_y" point. I don't know
>> if this is the recommended way to align text. Please tell me if you know
>> a better way.
>>
>> Also, I want to create a box filled in a color between the image and the
>> text. For example, the image in grayscale, then a red box with black text.
>>
>> My question is, how can I get the measures (in pixels) of the box
>> containing all the text, not just each character.
>>
>>
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