The following program:
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont("Courier", "winansi", false);
System.out.println(bf.getFontDescriptor(BaseFont.DESCENT, 10));
prints -1.57.
I was complaining about the java awt not iText. iText works well or at
least I know how it works.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
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> BaseFont.getFontDescriptor(BaseFont.ASCENT, fontSize) seems
> to be wrong
>
> The thing is, Courier does need to have a non-zero descent -
> gjqy - those
> four letters all descend below the baseline. Doesn't that make sense?
>
> Thanks - dave
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Paulo
> Soares
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:55 AM
> To: David Thielen; itext
> Subject: RE: [iText-questions]
> BaseFont.getFontDescriptor(BaseFont.ASCENT,
> fontSize) seems to be wrong
>
> Those are the values returned by the font data. Only God
> knows where the
> values used by the java awt come from.
>
> Best Regards,
> Paulo Soares
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of David Thielen
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 6:55 AM
> > To: itext
> > Subject: [iText-questions]
> > BaseFont.getFontDescriptor(BaseFont.ASCENT, fontSize) seems
> > to be wrong
> >
> > Hi;
> >
> >
> >
> > I am comparing the values returned by TextLayout with
> > BaseFont.getFontDescriptor. I am doing this with 12 pt.
> > Courier New running
> > on Windows.
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is what I am getting
> >
> >
> >
> > BaseFont.getFontDescriptor
> >
> > ADVANCE: 7.3535156
> >
> > AWT_ADVANCE: 9.990234
> >
> > DESCENT: 0
> >
> > AWT_DESCENT: 0
> >
> > AWT_LEADING: 0
> >
> >
> >
> > TextLayout:
> >
> > Ascent: 9.95
> >
> > Descent: 3.6
> >
> > Leading: 0
> >
> >
> >
> > So AWT_ADVANCE seems to pat to TextLayout.getAdvance(). But
> > why is there the
> > big difference in descent values returned?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks - dave
> >
> >
> >
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