Hello,

Paulo thank you for your quick answer, but I have still one question. What do the values mean, that I get for BBOXLLY and BBOXURY (you mean probably this key as second value) ? If I print those values to my console, then I get for Arial 10pt the following value:
BBOXLLY: -3.2470703
BBOXURY: 10.371094,
which are more than 10pt max. height a glyph of than font can have. Or are those values are only relative values to baseline and dont mean -3.2.. pt below baseline, for example ?


Thank you in advance

Best Regards,
Stefan Duffner

Paulo Soares wrote:

Use the BBOXLLY and the BBOXURY to get the limits. The values are all
relative to the baseline.

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares

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Subject: [iText-questions] baseline of Fonts




Hello,

is it possible to get the baseline y position of font as absolute value.
For example I have a Font with size 10pt then I want to know that the
baseline y position is for example 3 pt. (Coordinate System like PDF)

I ask that, because I have the following problem:
I want to add Text in the position (0,0), but if I add this then the
descending of a char like g is lost, because iText adds text to the
baseline.

I thought the following will perhaps work. I get the maxAscending and
maxDescending of the font by the method
font.getFontDescriptor(BaseFont.ASCEND and BaseFont.DESCEND,
SIZE_OF_FONT). I wanted to do the following calculation:

baseline_y_pos = (asc/desc) * fontsize

And this result will be my y-position, when I add the text to the pdf
position (0,0). But there is the problem that maxAscend and maxDescend
will probably never fill the complete font square (defined by units per
em) and so I could not be sure that the ascent/descent ratio of the font
is same as the ratio defined in the font by font square (defined by
units per em) relation.

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Best Regard and thanks for any comments in advance
Stefan Duffner




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