Re: [Devel] bounding box

[Vincent Caron]

Steve Dekorte wrote:
> Is there a way to find the length(in pixels) of what a given string will 
> render to without actually rendering?

If you considered the 'compute_string_bbox()' from 
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step2.html , 
you'll notice that you don't need to do rendering do compute string 
metrics. Read the FT_Outline_Get_BBox and Ft_Outline_Get_CBox 
documentation carefully to choose one or another.