FontMetrics

Obtain font information as fixed-point data types

#include <Fonts.h> Font Manager

void FontMetrics(theInfo );

FMetricRec *theInfo ; address of structure to receive size info

FontMetrics is similar to GetFontInfo in that it supplies information

about the current font/size/style as found in the active GrafPort. The

difference is that FontMetrics supplies its information as fixed-point (i.e.,

fractional) values.

theInfo is the address of a 20-byte FMetricRec structure. Upon return, its

fields contain the font's ascent, descent, leading, etc., sizes, defined

as Fixed data types (i.e., the high word is the integer portion and the

low word is the fractional portion).

Notes: Since a fractional screen dot is pretty meaningless,

FontMetrics is used mainly by programs that output to a laser printer.

You may wish to use it in a page-preview feature to be more exact in

character placement.

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