TextBlock Height vs RangeHeight

[Brent Rose]

The version 7 documentation states: "Due to historical reasons (16-bit), Print(), Write() and Render() add a small offset to the bottom coordinate of a text object. For compatibilty, WriteTextBlock() does the same...."

It would appear that the "small offset" is 0.02 cm. Can you please confirm if this is indeed the offset value and that it is a constant in all cases.

ie Given a SINGLE LINE text block, for example, the difference between TVPETextBlock.Height and TVPETextBlock.RangeHeight(0, 1) for that one line will always be 0.02 cm no matter what the font settings (for plain text or RTF).

REASON: I'm wanting to explicitly control line spacing and effectively include the "small offset" with EVERY line. This means the height of some lines from a multi-line text block printed one line at a time would be the RangeHeight of those lines plus an extra 0.02 for each line.

Thanks.

[IDEAL Software Support]

Yes, the offset is 0.02 cm. It is a constant.

For text surrounded with a frame (i.e. PenSize > 0), things are different. But I would need to check the code for details.