#17 piddlePIL-helvetica ascent/descent wrong

[Christopher Lee-Messer]

Hi,

I've found yet another piddlePIL bug. This time it the helvetica 8pt
font that's giving me a little trouble. It seems that either its ascent
or descent are wrong. The following sample code draws several strings in
different sizes and draws a line where the baseline is. The smalles text
is clearly placed too low:

import piddlePIL, piddle

canvas = piddlePIL.PILCanvas(size = (100, 100))

x = 5
y = 20
face = 'helvetica'
for size in (8, 10, 12, 18):
font = piddle.Font(face = face, size = size)
canvas.drawString('Der Fluegelflagel gaustert', x, y, font = font)
canvas.drawLine(x, y, x + 90, y)
y = y + 20

canvas.getImage().save('bug.ppm')

Bernhard

[michal wallace]

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