Suppose you want to use a font that's 12 pixels (not 12 points)
Arial. How would you do it? It seems like the answer has
something to do with FontRenderContext and AffineTransform
but does anybody have code that creates a font with a size in
pixels, or measures the size in pixels of an existing font?
Thanks.
The basic problem here is what a 12 point font really is. The point size
of a font is actually the design distance from the baseline of one row
of text to the baseline of the next row of text including the designed
whitespace between the rows of characters. The actual height of an upper
case A in most fonts is about 70% to 75% of the point size. Also a point
is only approximated by and not exactly equal to 1/72 of an inch and is
independent of the size of a pixel. A 12 pixel font on a 4800 dpi image
setter would be very small. A 12 pixel font would also be a different
size if a monitor was at 100 pixels/inch instead of 75 pixels/inch.
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