[scribus] determine maximum point size of a given font that will fit within a given width

[Fred Zimmerman]

I am trying to figure out how to do this so I can automagically determine
the font size for spine text on a spine of arbitrary width.

To do that directly, Iwould need to be able to determine the maximum y
height above and below the baseline for all the characters in the text
string; I don't see the right commands for that in the Scripter API, but am
I missing something?

Otherwise, it looks like I could do something iterative with increasing the
font size and seeing if it overflows.  That strikes me as clumsy.  Anyone
else have any ideas?

Fred



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