Looking at STR 2456, there seems to be a general font scale issue. I know that we never insisted on a perfect font size, assuming that the font "height" is supposed to be set. But having learned much more about fonts than I ever wanted, I now know that there are many different meanings to the "height" of a font.

So what's a poor developer to do? 

- first, we need to define what exactly we mean by font "height", right? 
- then we need to find the function on all platforms that returns the same values for the same (TT) font
- finally, we have to find out how to *request* the desired font height

That all should give use a better result, but it still does not guarantee that the *width* and layout will be the same on every platform... .

Sigh.

On 28.11.2010, at 21:06, a.rburgers.quicknet wrote:

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