gimp-text-get-extents-fontname

Martin Edlman & Sven Neumann

Description

Get extents of the bounding box for the specified text.

Help

This tool returns the width and height of a bounding box for the specified text string with the specified font information. Ascent and descent for the specified font are returned as well. Parameter size-type is not used and is currently ignored. If you need to display a font in points, divide the size in points by 72.0 and multiply it by the vertical resolution of the image you are taking into account.


Type

unknown

Parameters

Type Name Description
PF_VALUE text The text to generate (in UTF-8 encoding)
PF_FLOAT size The size of text in either pixels or points (size >= 0)
PF_INT size-type The units of specified size { PIXELS (0), POINTS (1) }
PF_VALUE fontname The name of the font

Return

Type Name Description
PF_INT width The width of the specified font
PF_INT height The height of the specified font
PF_INT ascent The ascent of the specified font
PF_INT descent The descent of the specified font