POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Font metrics : Re: Font metrics Server Time
5 Sep 2024 03:24:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Font metrics  
From: andrel
Date: 3 Nov 2009 15:21:05
Message: <4AF090B0.6040500@hotmail.com>
On 3-11-2009 11:49, Invisible wrote:
> Does *anybody* here know what the hell the width of each character in a 
> Courier 10pt typeface is?! (Apparently it isn't 10pt.)

I did a simple test: I used Open Office writer. Selected Courier New and 
type as many spaces as I could fit on a line. There were 66, the ruler 
showed that that was in approximately 16.8 cm. So we have
66/(16.8/2.54) characters per inch. Or about 9.9786.
Great. Minor detail, the font size is 12.


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