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slim mauveBOT Mar 20, 2024, 12:55 AM

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worn patio Mar 20, 2024, 12:58 AM

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You'd need to know the width of each character.

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unless it's fixed-width

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hah, I was just going to suggest PIL.

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Really the best way is to render it first and measure it.

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as far as I know

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it's not a trivial problem fwiw

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It's a difficult problem to solve. Fonts are very complex.

echo gull Mar 20, 2024, 1:05 AM

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For example: ligatures make life hell: https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/ligature

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But rendering and measuring is probably a viable strategy: but then you may run into os related differences in rendering.

white beacon Mar 20, 2024, 1:06 AM

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i personally used pygame for font rendering and checking. pygame has functions that return the width,height of a given text with given font and size without rendering it

echo gull Mar 20, 2024, 1:06 AM

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Monospaced fonts make this easier

worn patio Mar 20, 2024, 1:08 AM

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@white beacon What is your application doing with the strings? It may be better/easier to just force a certain string length with a good margin.

white beacon Mar 20, 2024, 1:09 AM

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with most non-monospace fonts, that would lead into a very ugly result

worn patio Mar 20, 2024, 1:09 AM

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fair

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depends on the application

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Have you seen https://imgflip.com/memegenerator ?

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I think it's doing what you are trying to do

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That site dynamically resizes the text area depending on the length of the input string.

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(so it fits inside a bounding box)

echo gull Mar 20, 2024, 1:14 AM

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Yup, so a crude answer is to just come up with an estimate that errs on the side of caution

slim mauveBOT Mar 20, 2024, 2:16 AM

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