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Re: Vertical text alignment in postscript [message #54930 is a reply to message #54861]

Wed, 18 July 2007 06:39

Andy Heaps
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Registered: March 2006

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Many thanks for the replies - they were very useful.

The space that I was referring to is the spacing between text lines.
As I don't use more than one line of text at a time this wasn't
something I'd thought of.

To get a fairly decent approximation of the true height of true type
fonts in postscript I used the formula:
ypixels=!D.Y_CH_SIZE*charsize*0.84

Where ypixels is the height in pixels and charsize is size of the
characters passed to the xyouts procedure.
The scaling factor of 0.84 to get the best fit changes according to
the font used but 0.84 looks pretty good for Helvetica and Times.

Cheers
Andy

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