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Re: [ft] How to compute the baseline for for a font face?
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro |
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Re: [ft] How to compute the baseline for for a font face? |
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Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:13:06 +1200 |
I wrote:
> You want the FT_Face descender value
> <https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_FaceRec>.
>
> But be aware that this value, like the rest of the font metrics, is
> set by the font designer to make the text lines look good overall, it
> won’t necessarily guarantee that the text won’t get clipped.
Or maybe not. I think it was the Size_Metrics I was thinking of. These
values are probably accurate, since they bound the limits of the area
that need to be rendered by the rasterizer.