The java.awt.Font and FontMetrics Class

• Graphicsinstance.setFont(particularFont) will set the current Font in the instance Graphicsinstance of the Graphics class to the value particularFont of class Font.

• The class Font has an important constructor used as in

• Font MyFont = new Font("TimesRoman", Font.PLAIN ,36);

  • where one can also use Courier, Helvetica, ZapfDingbats, . . ., Monospaced, Serif, SansSerif, Dialog
  • Font.PLAIN, Font.BOLD, Font.ITALIC are possible text styles

• FontMetrics fm = getFontMetrics(particularFont); // allows one to find out about the font

  • fm.stringWidth("text"); // returns pixel width of string "text"
  • fm.getHeight(); // returns total height of highest Font character
  • getAscent(),
  • getDescent(),
  • getLeading(),

• Drawstring uses leftmost baseline point as (x,y)

Nancy

leading

ascent

descent

baseline

}

height

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