On 3/8/12 2:40 PM, "Albert Astals Cid" <[email protected]> wrote:
>El Dimecres, 7 de març de 2012, a les 13:14:51, Josh Richardson va >escriure: >> Since HTML positions from the top of a span, not the baseline, it's very >> important for me to know the true ascent of a font. The odd font is not >> accurate with the reported value of this metric, and the incorrect value >> seems to be the value that's stored in Poppler's GfxFont. Any >>suggestions >> on how to find the true value? I think free type 2 has functions that >> allow me to get at the true bounding box by tracing the arcs of >>component >> splines, so I'm considering linking against that, but I'd love to know >>if >> there is a cleaner way to do it. > >I don't think there's another way than actually looking at the real font >(i.e. >using freetype). Cool, turns out it's not as bad as I thought, since Freetype is already linked in. --josh _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
