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The fontinfo( function returns a dictionary with information about a specified font.

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Parameters

This function has three parameters:

font – name of the font.

size – size of the font (in points). The size does not have to be an integer value.

style – the style of the font, for example bold, italic or bolditalic. For a plain style leave this parameter blank or omit it entirely.

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Description

This function returns a dictionary with information about a specified font. The dictionary contains information like the ascender and descender height, leading, etc. This example determines the height of capital letters for 12 point Helevetica text.

getdictionaryvalue(fontinfo("Helvetica",12),"CAPHEIGHT") ☞ 8.607422

Some fonts allow modifiers on the name:

getdictionaryvalue(fontinfo("Optima ExtraBlack",24),"WEIGHT") ☞ 11

Use the dumpdictionary( function to see a list of all of the available attributes.

dumpdictionary(catcherror("",fontinfo("Courier",24,"italic")))

Here is a typical result of this formula:

LEADING=0.000000
CAPHEIGHT=14.273438
DESCENDER=-5.906250
FIXEDPITCH=-1
DISPLAYNAME=Courier Oblique
XHEIGHT=11.097656
ASCENDER=18.093750
POINTSIZE=24.000000
MAXWIDTH=19.757812
GLYPHCOUNT=1343
FAMILY=Courier
WEIGHT=5

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See Also

• fontcharacters( -- returns a string (text) containing all of the characters supported by the specified font.
• fontinformation -- accesses information about a font (see also the fontinfo( function).
• info("fonts") -- returns a list of all fonts installed on this computer.
• measuretext( -- returns the size of a string of text in a particular font and size.

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History

Version	Status	Notes
10.0	New	New in this version.