Yes, I'm familiar with the Pythagorean theorem... On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 24.01.2017 um 23:20 schrieb Gilad Denneboom: > >> Thanks, but surely PDFont.getStringWidth() will return the width of the >> text string on its own, not of the rect that surrounds it when it is >> rotated, right? >> > > No. You'll need to so some math (cosine). > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric_functions > > Tilman > > > > >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Am 24.01.2017 um 22:53 schrieb Gilad Denneboom: >>> >>> I can't figure out >>>> how the moveTextPositionByAmount works... >>>> >>>> It is relative to the previous position since the start of the text >>> mode. >>> It starts at 0,0. >>> >>> Basically what I would like is to be able to calculate the height and >>> width >>> >>>> of the text, so I could figure out where on the page to place it so that >>>> the center of both objects are aligned. >>>> >>>> >>> See the DrawPrintTextLocations example on how to calculate the height. >>> It's quite tricky. The width you can get by PDFont.getStringWidth(). >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
