[Fontconfig] Get width of each character.

[Jerry Casiano]

You probably want to use something like Pango for this, or Freetype of
course.



On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 4:49 AM Dheeraj Yadav <dhirajyadav135 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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