The font metrics provided in the jar don't have that information.
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Glaphmion
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 5:43 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] getAscentPoint and Asian fonts
>
> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone run in to the problem where baseFont.getAscentPoint and
> .getDescentPoint both return 0 for a valid UTF-8 string? I'm not
> doing anything out of the ordinary, simply:
>
> float textHeight = baseFont.getAscentPoint(text, size) -
> baseFont.getDescentPoint(text, size);
>
> I'm having the same problem for all four Asian fonts (zh-TW, zh-CN,
> ja-JP, ko-KO), and I've verified that the font JAR file is correctly
> included (the rendered PDF has the text displayed correctly). Am I
> doing something wrong? Is this a known issue?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
> Tim
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