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Re: width of xyouts? [message #19104]

Thu, 24 February 2000 00:00

davidf
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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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