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I was looking for a way to find the bounds on rendered text and encountered the FontMetrics getStringBounds method. This seems to ignore some font's descent and has an exaggerated ascent so that it returns a bounds that doesn't let me align vertically properly. I dug a bit deeper and found that GlyphVector.getPixelBounds() SEEMS to do what I want, but I don't know if there might be some problems with using it.

I wrote an applet http://breadmilkbeercigarettes.com/bmbc/shelves/users/bbb/src/java/applet/glyphvector.html that displays the difference between the two, and it seems for my system fonts it returns the correct bounds. Does anyone know if this is a costly method or if there are other possible pitfalls from using it? FontMetrics never seemed to work correctly for me. Or perhaps my expectations of it were misaligned.

Thanks, BBB

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GlyphVector has the method

public abstract Shape getOutline()
StanislavL
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