Graphical Text Size

[Noah Coad [MVP]]

How does one obtain the physical dimensions (in pixels) of some text (with a
specific font)?



I need to write text to a 'Graphics' object that must be centered, and in
order to center the text I need to know what it's size will be.



Your help is much appreciated!


Noah Coad
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Microsoft MVP & MCP (.NET/C#) | coad.net/noah

 

[Philip Rieck]

Graphics.MeasureString() is what you're probably looking for.

 

[Noah Coad [MVP]]

Perfect! Thanks!

Graphics.MeasureString() is what you're probably looking for.

How does one obtain the physical dimensions (in pixels) of some text

(with

a
specific font)?



I need to write text to a 'Graphics' object that must be centered, and in
order to center the text I need to know what it's size will be.



Your help is much appreciated!


Noah Coad
-=[ Know-a-Code ]=-

Microsoft MVP & MCP (.NET/C#) | coad.net/noah

 

[Ron Allen]

Noah,
Make sure you look at the overloads for this as the default includes
some padding around the string boundary. StringFormat.GenericTypographic
will give better measurement results. Construct your own StringFormat if
you need to handle other things such as trailing spaces.

Ron Allen

Perfect! Thanks!

Graphics.MeasureString() is what you're probably looking for.

How does one obtain the physical dimensions (in pixels) of some text

(with

a
specific font)?



I need to write text to a 'Graphics' object that must be centered, and in
order to center the text I need to know what it's size will be.



Your help is much appreciated!


Noah Coad
-=[ Know-a-Code ]=-

Microsoft MVP & MCP (.NET/C#) | coad.net/noah

 

[Noah Coad [MVP]]

That is particularly interesting. Thanks Ron...

Noah,
Make sure you look at the overloads for this as the default includes
some padding around the string boundary. StringFormat.GenericTypographic
will give better measurement results. Construct your own StringFormat if
you need to handle other things such as trailing spaces.

Ron Allen

Perfect! Thanks!

Graphics.MeasureString() is what you're probably looking for.


How does one obtain the physical dimensions (in pixels) of some text (with
a
specific font)?



I need to write text to a 'Graphics' object that must be centered,

and
in

order to center the text I need to know what it's size will be.



Your help is much appreciated!


Noah Coad
-=[ Know-a-Code ]=-

Microsoft MVP & MCP (.NET/C#) | coad.net/noah