Hi, for a text background graphic I need the character box sizes of a given string. I managed to collect the needed info (width, height, depth, kerns), but there is still some flaw in the kerning part. For example: "VATo" is printed out (in the shell) as V 12 11 0 *kerning -85721.088 A 10 11 0 *kerning -64487.424 T 10 11 0 *kerning -64487.424 o 7 7 0 The character stands in the first column, followed by width, height and depth (in pixel). The "*kerning" line shows the kerning value (in sp) of the neighbouring character pair. No problem here. But "A much longer Test graphic VATo" A 12 11 0 5 0 0 m 13 7 0 *kerning -21233.664 u 8 7 0 c 7 7 0 *kerning -21233.664 h 8 11 0 5 0 0 l 4 11 0 o 7 7 0 n 9 7 0 g 8 7 3 e 7 7 0 r 6 7 0 5 0 0 T 11 11 0 e 7 7 0 s 6 7 0 t 6 10 0 5 0 0 g 8 7 3 r 6 7 0 a 8 7 0 p 9 7 3 h 8 11 0 i 4 10 0 c 7 7 0 5 0 0 V 12 11 0 A 12 11 0 T 11 11 0 o 7 7 0 sees no kerning for "VATo" (although the text is printed with the correct kerning). What am I missing? Example code is attached. Peter