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NAME

       PS_symbol_width — Get width of a glyph

SYNOPSIS

       #include <pslib.h>

       float  PS_symbol_width(PSDoc *psdoc, unsigned char c, int fontid, float
       size)

DESCRIPTION

       Retrieves the width of a glyph which is  at  position  c  in  the  font
       encoding  vector.  The font encoding for a font can be set when loading
       the font with PS_findfont().

       fontid and size are optional and can be set to zero. In such a case the
       current font and size will be used.

RETURN VALUE

       The width of the symbol in points.

SEE ALSO

       PS_findfont(3), PS_symbol(3), PS_symbol_name(3)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx.

                                                            PS_symbol_width(3)