font metrics

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Amerio

Hello,
Given a Font object, how can I extract ALL font metrics, including
characters metrics (possibly including kerning pairs) ?
 
It's not possible to do this diretly with the .NET framework.

You can use interop to obtain more information than is available from the
GDI+ Font object but when I had to tackle this same problem a while ago I
ended up writing a font program decoder that read the font tables directly.

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It's not possible to do this diretly with the .NET framework.

You can use interop to obtain more information than is available from the
GDI+ Font object but when I had to tackle this same problem a while ago I
ended up writing a font program decoder that read the font tables
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directly.


Ok, I give up trying to do this simple task in Win32 or NET.
I've finally done it with freetype2 (www.freetype.org) in less time than I
spent searching for a "native" solution.
 
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