the form has textwidth and textheight properties, as does the picturebox.
Just assign the font properties then call the textxx properties with the
sting of interest.

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Randy Birch
MS MVP Visual Basic
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"gilgames"  wrote in message
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: Is there any equivalent of the FontMetrics method in Visual Basic? I
: want to know what is the length and height in terms of pixels of a given
: string using a given font and device context (e.g. user screen)



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