How yo measure a string Hight/Width in WPF

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How to measure the string size in WPF..In C1PdfDocument(component1PDF)have a function MeasureString(string,Font) to measure width/height of string do WPF has similar function.

internal float GetWidth(string text,Font font) {
     C1PdfDocument pdf;
     return pdf.MeasureString(text,font).Width;
   }

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sajith

Posted 28-Jan-12 20:36pm

sajithnet

Updated 28-Jan-12 20:45pm

Abhinav S

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-28T20:52:00

Solution 1

This is done using the class System.Windows.Media.FormattedText, please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.formattedtext.aspx[^].

Also, see the code sample in this discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/824281/wpf-equivalent-to-textrenderer[^].

—SA

Posted 28-Jan-12 20:52pm

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Amir Mahfoozi 29-Jan-12 2:53am

+5

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Jan-12 3:09am

Thank you, Amir.
--SA

sajithnet 29-Jan-12 3:16am

Many thanks SAKryukov

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Jan-12 3:38am

No problem at all.
Good luck, call again.
--SA