Re: [Freetype] Bounding box

[Olivier Couet]

 Hello Laurent,

 I am not convince that gettting the max and min of all the glyphs in my
string will give me W and H as shown below, even after a rotation.

 Olivier

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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Laurent Lequenne wrote:

> Hello Olivier
> 
> >                +
> >              T |
> >            X   |
> >          E     |  H
> >        T       |
> >       +--------+
> >           W
> 
> For each glyph you get a bounding box, if you get the max and min of all
> boxes you obtain a final box that holds the complete string.  You do that
> once, you should just apply the transform of the box on that box too. In the
> ftstring.c example you can see they are using the bbox rectangle. I don't
> know anymore which function updates the bounding box a particular glyph.
> 
> You can also get the boxes each time you draw the string, the final best fit
> box will be the min. and max values of all boxes together.
> 
> The min and max values of the new box, will define the best fit box of your
> text, as each corner represents a limit of the box. Furthermore, If you are
> using outlines you need to take in count of the extra pixels needed to draw
> outside the borders.
> 
> Voila hope it answers your question =:)
> 
> Laurent
> 
> > What is the best way to get W and H for any font ?
> >
> >  Olivier
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