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Posted on 2011-02-06 10:23:57.871304-08 by cdolan in response to 13181
Re: Finding widths of text objects
CAM::PDF does indeed do this, but it does a pretty crappy job of it. If the document publishes font metrics, then it becomes a moderately easy job (except for kerning...). There's a method called getStringWidth() in CAM/PDF.pm that shows the limitations quite clearly if you look at the source code.
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