I have a datafeed that needs to truncate certain lines so that they don't break across lines in a specific width table in HTML output (web designers can be particular). In other words, I need to be able to figure out how many pixels wide a particular text string will be when rendered in a given truetype font at a given font size.

Other than dumping the font metrics to a table (the designers are using a single Web-ish true-type font in 11pts), how can I determine the string width, accounting for paired kerning?

I have looked at various modules from CPAN for getting TTF metrics, but have yet to find an example of what I suspect is a common problem, e.g., determining the rendered width of the string.

Can anyone provide any pointer to where I might look for example code in Perl, C, or Java?

In reply to Length of rendered TTF string in pixels? by Anonymous Monk

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