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Re: width of xyouts?
- Subject: Re: width of xyouts?
- From: davidf(at)dfanning.com (David Fanning)
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:50:21 -0700
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
- Organization: Fanning Software Consulting
- References: <38B53825.286CE977@see.signature.edu>
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eddie haskell (haskell@see.signature.edu) writes:
> So my question is: Is there a way to obtain the width of a text string
> using postscript fonts without adding to the size of the postscript
> file?
I don't think I would have expected this WIDTH trick
to work in PostScript. (Where would the feedback come
from?) I don't know of an alternative, except to choose
a non-proportionally spaced font and count letters.
Cheers,
David
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