Calculate Font/Text Metrics

Question

Hi all,
I need to calculate the width and height of a certain font with a specific text.
Short Example (values are fictitiouse):
Font="Arial" FontSize="10"
Text="acs" => width=30 & height=10
Text="acd" => width=30 & height=14
Text="acW" => width=38 & height=15
Text="gcW" => width=38 & height=22
Do somebody of you know a way how to do that? Fonts can't be embedded because list of fonts need to be device fonts...
Hope somebody can help me!
Thanks

Answer 1

Bumb and here is a sample code so you can try what I did so far
private function testToMeassureText(text:String):void {
     var font:String = "Times New Roman";
     var size:Number = 10;
     var myTextField:TextField = new TextField();
     myTextField.x = 0;
     myTextField.y = 0;
     myTextField.background = false;
     myTextField.wordWrap = false;
     myTextField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
     myTextField.text = text;
     var newFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
     newFormat.size = size;
     newFormat.font = font;
     newFormat.italic = false;
     newFormat.bold = false;
     myTextField.setTextFormat(newFormat);
     var metrics1:TextLineMetrics = myTextField.getLineMetrics(0);
     trace("------------------------------------------------------");
     trace("Metrics ascent is: " + metrics1.ascent.toString());
     trace("Metrics descent is: " + metrics1.descent.toString());
     trace("Metrics height is: " + metrics1.height.toString());
     trace("Metrics width is: " + metrics1.width.toString());
Also tried:
var bound:Rectangle = myTextField.getCharBoundaries(0);
trace("Char width is: " + bound.width);
trace("Char height is: " + bound.height);
Same Problem, the height always the same, doesn't matter if it is iE. an "a" "A" or "g"
Now I know, I am searching for the x-height of a font but I could not find a solution!
Any Ideas?
Message was edited by: frankhoff