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NAME

       PS_string_geometry — Gets geometry of a string

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pslib.h>

       float  PS_string_geometry(PSDoc  *psdoc,  const  char  *text,  int  len,  int  fontid,  float size, float
       *dimension)

DESCRIPTION

       This function is identical to PS_stringwidth2(3)            but has an extra parameter  dimension  which,
       if not NULL, will be used to return further dimensions of the string.

       dimension[0] contains the width as returned by the function.  dimension[1] contains the maximum descender
       and dimension[2] the maximum ascender of the string.

RETURN VALUE

       Width of a string in points.

SEE ALSO

       PS_stringwidth(3), PS_stringwidth2(3)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx.

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