[comp.windows.open-look] Getting the point size of a font

bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras) (04/30/91)

I am trying to query a font size of an X font structure that I have.  On
the X11/NeWS server V2.000, XGetFontProperty fails because the Sun
X11/NeWS server doesn't store the POINT_SIZE font property.  I am trying
to use the metrics stored in the font structure.  According to the
definition of type size, adding the maximum accent and maximum decent of
the entire font and converting pixels to points I should be able to do
this.  It doesn't seem to work.  I suspect this is because the
OpenWindows X11/NeWS server returns a differnet milimeter width of the
screen then the X11R4 server.  I use the width of the screen in
milimeters to convert pixels to points.  Could anyone give me some
HELP!!!  Thank you.

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