[Lazarus] Problem with Includes during Design Time

Andrew Brunner andrew.t.brunner at gmail.com
Sat Aug 15 17:03:31 CEST 2009



>>> Does anybody else excluding Paul know what negative fonts sizes mean? 
> I admit a little explenation would help since it is not so trivial.
> A positive fontsize is the size of a font in points
> A negative fontsize is the size of a font in points including the 
> internal leading at the top of the line
> For fontheights it is the opposite since the height and size are related 
> like:
>  fontsize = -fontheight * 72/pixelsperinch

This seems not to be a general concept (Windows only?). While searching 
for negative font sizes on the web I found this:

http://cfsearching.blogspot.com/2008/03/imagedrawtext-negative-font-sizes-give.html

which shows a completely different effect when using negative font sizes.




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