Hey all. Sorry to just blurt onto the developer list like this, but the nice folks on #GIMP said that this was the place for such contributions. I was looking through the PDB for a good procedure to return the metrics of a text string a la gdk_string_extents() but all I could find was gimp-text-get-extents. Unfortunately it returns the ascent and descent of the font, not of the characters in the current string. So, if you need to align the baselines of two or more strings in potentially different fonts and/or sizes (I do), you're stuck. Maybe there is some way to do it with the functions that are available, but if so then I am too dumb to figure out what that approach might be, and there are probably a lot of people at least as dumb as me out there who would get similarly stuck. The attached patch to 1.1.25 is my solution, two new functions text_get_string_extents and text_get_string_extents_fontname, that provide the "real" ascent and descent info, as well as the lbearing and rbearing of the string. It's really just a map-through to gdk_string_extents(), but it solves my problem so I thought I would throw it out there for general consumption. If someone could tell me how to submit this to the development I would greatly appreciate it. Also, if someone wants to point out the obvious "other" solution that I could have used (if one exists), that would be edifying. Nick Marden - nick@xxxxxxxxxx (New numbers - please note!) (T) 781-455-0675 (C) 781-929-5279 (F) 781-455-6278
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