[Fontconfig] Get width of each character.

Dheeraj Yadav dhirajyadav135 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 5 09:48:53 UTC 2020


Hi Akira,
Thanks for the reply.

I know it doesn't affect rendering but I am working on converting text to
pdf. So, I need to get the value of width of each character.

Cheers
Dheeraj

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 2:58 PM Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org> wrote:

> 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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>
>
> --
> Akira TAGOH
>
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