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Java Fonts

Posted by Rajesh Dubey on June 09, 2000 at 6:31 PM

A font is normally specified in Points and by default there are 72 points in an inch.
Hence a 10 point font should be of an height of 10/72 of an inch, but the getAscent and getDescent api returns value which makes the size of font much greater than that.
I wrote a simple program which draws the baseline, ascent, descent and leading for a string, for all fonts supported on the platform. I found that for every font there is a huge difference between the ascent returned by the Font metric and the actual height above the baseline.
I would like to know how can i acurately determine the font size in java and what does it consist of.
Thanks
Rajesh