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Foil 8 Font Metrics

From Java Academy II:Intermediate Java NPAC/ECS Java Academy -- February to April 98. by Tom Scavo
Every font has associated with it a set of "metrics" that define the precise dimensions of the font
Some of the metric properties of a font are ascent, descent, leading, and height, where height = ascent + descent + leading
All font metric properties are captured in a FontMetrics object

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