Re: [ft] BBox question

[Chia I Wu]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:07:37PM +0200, Michele Petrazzo wrote:
> Another simple question (but I'm crazing... :) )
> I load truetype font, a face, and a character. Set size. I want to know
> its Bbox, so the width and height in pixel size.
> (with another tool I see that Arial font with 50 dimension and 96
> resolution, the size is 19 x 75)
> 
> For width, is simple: face->glyph->advanced.x / 64  = 19 (right)
> And for height? I try to translate to pixel size all the face/glyph
> dimension,( face->bbox, face->size->matrix, etc..) but I cannot find the
> "75" value.
> Can someone point me to the right direction?
After loading the glyph, use
FT_Outline_Get_CBox( &face->glyph->outline, &cbox ) to get the bounding
box of the glyph.

face->bbox is a bounding box of all glyphs of a face.
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Regards,
olv