Posted by Greg Donald on 10/10/79 11:13

On 4/14/05, Christian Calloway <callowaylc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> trying to dynamically size cell widths; what I need is a formula to measure
> pixels per character for an arbitrary font (in this case 10pt verdana). A
> simple function f(x) = strlen(x) * SOMECONSTANT just doesn't seem to cut it,
> as returned widths are to small are long. Any ideas?

Google for 'font width calculator'. I've seen a few of them over the
years, mostly Flash or Java based.


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Greg Donald
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