Re: [ft] Text extent with different renderers

[Ineiev]

Hi, AlannY;

On 4/27/09, AlannY <address@hidden> wrote:
> I need to get width and height of single character with known font and
> size (in my test suite: Arial 12). On Linux, I'm using FreeType and on
> Windows I'm using Windows GDI for this.
[snip]
> Please, help. I want to get equal results or (!) explain me why I can't
> get it ;-) Thank you.

AFAIK you can get yet other sizes when rendering with older versions
of FreeType (I can't tell if this is true for the other library). as
just an uneducated guess, this may be result of fuzziness of font
format specifications.

Regards,
Ineiev