Re: pixels per character
| From: | Greg Donald | Date: | Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:29:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pixels per character | ||
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On 4/14/05, Christian Calloway <callowaylc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> trying to dynamically size cell widths; what I need is a formula to measure
> pixels per character for an arbitrary font (in this case 10pt verdana). A
> simple function f(x) = strlen(x) * SOMECONSTANT just doesn't seem to cut it,
> as returned widths are to small are long. Any ideas?
Google for 'font width calculator'. I've seen a few of them over the
years, mostly Flash or Java based.
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Greg Donald
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