Font question

[orchid]

I have a question regarding font attributes.
I need to be able to change the width and/or the height of every character I paint on the screen.

Unfortunately Java only seems to allow to set the size of the font. What I am looking for is the possibility to change either the width, or the height. (this means "taller" characters with same width, or "larger" characters with same height).

Any idea on how I can do this?
I'm using this method to paint my characters:

Code:

Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g; GlyphVector gv;
FontRenderContext frc = g2.getFontRenderContext();
int oneGlyph[] = { asciiToArialSymbol[c] };
gv = fontSymbol.createGlyphVector( frc, oneGlyph );
g.setFont(fontSymbol); g.setColor(col);
g2.drawGlyphVector( gv, hStart+j*hOffset, vStart+(i+1)*vOffset-vDescent);

thanks

[hardwired]

If you know the size (width and height) you want for each glyph/letter you can get a pretty good fit by scaling the font with an AffineTransform.

Code:

AffineTransform at = AffineTransform...
g2.setFont(font.deriveFont(at));
g2.draw...