Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!unmvax!unmvax.cs.unm.edu!stone From: stone@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: bizarre bbox behaviour Keywords: sideBearings,"f" Message-ID: <281@unmvax.unm.edu> Date: 14 Aug 89 13:08:09 GMT Sender: stone@unmvax.unm.edu Reply-To: stone@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Andrew Stone) Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque Lines: 28 Enlightenment, please! I have a procedure which charpath's characters, passes the character width to a function which clips and then does a special fill into a rect whose width is the passed-in width [the vertical part works]. It works fine except for the letter "f" in Times-Roman, the top right part of the f does not get filled. It must overhang its bounding box, a poor computer scientist's ligature device? Or is the stringwidth of a character different from the bbox? ______ | ___| <--- | | ^ | ] | | | | Is this the only character that does this? Can I access the sidebearing data? Platform is the NeXT, so NXFontMetric replies preferred, but plain PostScript also welcome. Thanks, andrew ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<?>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>|| !! Andrew Stone !! Stone Design Software !! !! stone@hydra.unm.edu <> Albuquerque, New Mexico !! ||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<?>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||