Re: Accessing rendered image data

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> The reason I'm asking is because I'm trying to asses the width of
>> rendered text in an SVG image, but perhaps I can just render the text
>> normally in Emacs.
>
> I don't understand what that means.  You can obtain the size of an SVG
> image by using image-size.  Text that is part of an image is not
> accessible to Emacs, AFAIK, so what exactly did you have in mind?

I'm trying to find the width of the text rendered inside the SVG.

>> However, I can't make head or tails or the "advanced" face/font stuff in
>> the manual.
>
> Why font is relevant to the size of the text?  Does
> window-text-pixel-size do what you want?

See the other mail about `face (:font ...)' apparently not working.

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