CharWidth

Text, Fonts

Description

Returns the width of a character for the selected font

This width is returned as a ratio to the text size. For example, if this function returns 750 for a certain character, then the width of the character for a 12 point font will be (750 / 1000) * 12

Syntax

Delphi

Function TPDFlib.CharWidth(CharCode: Integer): Integer;

ActiveX

Function PDFlib::CharWidth(CharCode As Long) As Long

DLL

int DLCharWidth(int InstanceID, int CharCode);

Parameters

CharCode	The character to determine the width for. For example, 65 is the character A

Return values

	The width of the specified character. Divide this value by 1000, and multiply by the text size in points to get the width of the character