Printing right-justification problem

Question

I have tried to use several methods to accurately determine the rendered width of a string in order to position it at (right_edge - width) --that is, right-justified.  The problem is, all of the methods I have tried seem to under-report the length, resulting in the last few characters of the string being cut off at the right margin.  Here are the methods I have tried:
// g is an instance of Graphics2D cast from the Graphics object
// passed in via the Printable's print method
GlyphVector gv = g.getFont().createGlyphVector(g.getFontRenderContext(), MY_SENTENCE);
int widthONE = (int)Math.round(gv.getVisualBounds().getWidth());
int widthTWO = (int)Math.round(gv.getLogicalBounds().getWidth());
// try the standard methods:
int widthTHREE = (int)Math.round(g.getFontMetrics().getStringBounds(MY_SENTENCE,g).getWidth());
int widthFOUR = g.getFontMetrics().stringWidth(MY_SENTENCE);
I then render the string at the bottom right of the area using:
g.drawString( MY_SENTENCE, areaWidth-widthONE, areaHeight-1 );
...or widthTWO, etc.
No matter what Font I use, widthONE==widthTWO==widthTHREE==widthFOUR
areaWidth/areaHeight are correct, because a bounding rectangle (0,0,areaWidth,areaHeight) is rendered correctly and measures accurately with a ruler. But the string ends up cut off.
I am using Java 2 version 1.3.1_01 (Windows). I have tried several HP laser printers with identical results. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is this a bug in Java?
Thanks!

Answer 1

AHA! I upgraded to 1.4.2_03-b02 (Windows) and the problem went away... string bounds are accurate and right justification works nicely. And I was almost going to start on a workaround!