[Fontconfig] Get width of each character.

Akira TAGOH akira at tagoh.org
Wed Feb 5 09:27:51 UTC 2020


On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 6:06 PM Dheeraj Yadav <dhirajyadav135 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> The font I am using has FC_SPACING set as PROPORTIONAL.
> So, Width of each character is different. I wanted to know, is it possible to get width of each character for a particular font in C i.e. using fontconfig.h ?

Even if you change a value in FC_SPACING property, that won't change
the feel of "Width of each character is different" because that is the
reason why it was PROPORTIONAL. that is just a cache from a font to
query a best font against a request. that won't affect the rendering
directly.

>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Cheers
> Dheeraj
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