Re: font size in pixels?


"mitch" <mgart@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1151436278.483166.246430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.


I usually make a whole bunch of FontMetrics and do a binary search. E.g. 12pt too small? What about 24pt? Too big? How about 18 pt? etc.

You can cache the results in a map, e.g.: 12px -> 14.2pt, 13px -> 14.4pt, etc.

- Oliver

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