Pango.Font.get_metrics
Description: Reference for Pango.Font.get_metrics

### Virtual Method

# Pango Fontget_metrics

#### Declaration [src]

    PangoFontMetrics*
    get_metrics (
      PangoFont* font,
      PangoLanguage* language
    )

#### Description [src]

Gets overall metric information for a font.

Since the metrics may be substantially different for different scripts, a language tag can be provided to indicate that the metrics should be retrieved that correspond to the script(s) used by that language.

If `font` is `NULL`, this function gracefully sets some sane values in the output variables and returns.

#### Parameters

`language` | `PangoLanguage`
| Language tag used to determine which script to get the metrics for, or `NULL` to indicate to get the metrics for the entire font.
| The argument can be `NULL`.
| The data is owned by the caller of the function.

#### Return value

Returns: | `PangoFontMetrics`
| A `PangoFontMetrics` object. The caller must call pango_font_metrics_unref() when finished using the object.
| The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.