Getting string size in java (without having a Graphics object available)

Question

I\'m trying to write application which need to draw many strings using Graphics2D class in Java. I need to get sizes of each String object (to calculate exact p

Answer 1

Here is a snippet of code that does something similar -- wrote it for abbreviating the string to a given number of pixels.

public static String abbreviate(final Graphics2D g2, final String text, final int fitToWidth) {
     // define how many characters in the caption can be drawn
     final FontMetrics fm = g2.getFontMetrics();
     Rectangle2D textBounds = fm.getStringBounds(text, g2);
     int count = text.length();
     while ((textBounds.getWidth() > fitToWidth) && (count > 4)) {
         textBounds = fm.getStringBounds(text.substring(0, count--), g2);
     }
     return count == text.length() ? text : StringUtils.abbreviate(text, count);
}