Re: [ft] Question about font size

[LonelyStar]

I was getting my information from here: 
http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step2.html
http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step2.html .
Thanks for your help, works now!


Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> 
>> I would expect to get a character size around 1.0. For 'j' I get
>> 0.485149 :(
> 
>>   float h=face->size->metrics.height;
> 
> It seems that you haven't read the documentation about `height':
> 
>       height              :: The height is the vertical distance
>                              between two consecutive baselines,
>                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                              expressed in font units.  It is always
>                              positive.  Only relevant for scalable
>                              formats.
> 
> With other words, it doesn't give the maximum size of a letter but the
> distance between to text lines, normally larger than the largest
> character.  You probably want to use the `ascender' and `descender'
> fields of FT_Size_Metrics.
> 
> 
>      Werner
> 
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