pcl font width information

[suvigy]

Hi all,

I should determine font widths having variable widths. In my application I have to create a table with different cellwidths depending on the text in the cell. How can I determint the width of the fonts?
Thnx in advnace

George

 

[DansDadUK]

If you have the display equivalent of the printer font on your PC, you can find out widths from that.

If the display font is TrueType, there will be a horizontal widths table; not sure about bitmap, Intellifont or Type1 fonts, but there should be something similar with these.

Most IDEs (e.g. C++ Builder, VC++, etc.) make life easier by providing methods to perform this interrogation on your behalf, for a specified text string using a specified font at a specified pointsize.

 

[suvigy]

Thnx, Yes, I have no other choice I have to determine the widths with some ide (Visual C++).
I have other problem. I use fixed spacing fonts ( ESCs0P) and can't set the height for them, nothing happens, always the same height. Is there a solution for it.
Thnx

George

 

[DansDadUK]

With fixed-pitch scalable fonts, you have to specify the pitch value, rather than the pointsize value, in the font selection sequence.

i.e. use Esc(s0p#h... for fixed-pitch fonts
use Esc(s1p#v... for proportionally-spaced fonts

The relationship between pitch and pointsize for fixed-pitch fonts varies from typeface to typeface:

for Courier, pitch(cpi) * pointsize(pts) = 120
LetterGothic, pitch*pointsize = 144

are rough guidelines.