// Some of this code (namely the code for computing the // width of a string in a given font) was copied from // code.google.com/p/freetype-go/freetype/ which includes // the following copyright notice: // Copyright 2010 The Freetype-Go Authors. All rights reserved. package main import ( "github.com/golang/freetype/truetype" "golang.org/x/image/math/fixed" ) const ( fontSize = 11 ) func calculateTextWidth(text string) (int, error) { binFont, _ := Asset("assets/DejaVuSans.ttf") font, err := truetype.Parse(binFont) if err != nil { return 0, err } scale := fontSize / float64(font.FUnitsPerEm()) width := 0 prev, hasPrev := truetype.Index(0), false for _, rune := range text { fUnitsPerEm := fixed.Int26_6(font.FUnitsPerEm()) index := font.Index(rune) if hasPrev { width += int(font.Kern(fUnitsPerEm, prev, index)) } width += int(font.HMetric(fUnitsPerEm, index).AdvanceWidth) prev, hasPrev = index, true } return int(float64(width) * scale), nil }