gdtools (version 0.1.3)

str_extents: Compute string extents.

Description

Determines the width and height of a bounding box that's big enough to (just) enclose the provided text.

Usage

str_extents(x, fontname = "sans", fontsize = 12, bold = FALSE, italic = FALSE, fontfile = "")

Arguments

x

Character vector of of strings to measure

fontname

Font name

fontsize

Font size

bold, italic

Is text bold/italic?

fontfile

Font file

Examples

# The first run can be slow when font caches are missing
# as font files are then being scanned to build those font caches.
str_extents(letters)
str_extents("Hello World!", bold = TRUE, italic = FALSE,
  fontname = "sans", fontsize = 12)