BoundingBox for TextEntity.

[chenj07]

How do I get the BoundingBox dimensions for a TextEntity?

public override BoundingBox GetBoundingBox()
{
	return new BoundingBox(this.InsertPoint);
}

Is what the TextEntity.GetBoundingBox looks like currently. Is retrieving the boundingBox when the TextEntity has a value not a possible due to font metrics?

[DJGosnell]

Things get very complicated as soon as you start to get into text. LTR, RTL, Vertical, Arabic, Ligatures. The way I've done this is to utilize a full font library such as https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz which adds it's own platform dependent dependencies. See #535 for reference. I believe the current plan is to not integrate this into the library, unless it becomes significantly more simple.

See my comments here: #689 (comment)

[DomCR]

Hi @chenj07,

As @DJGosnell mentioned, the text functions add a lot of dependencies and complexity to the code, right now that's not the intention of the library, this methods will be necessary for another project ACadSharp.Pdf to be able to render the text, but I'll keep these methods separated.

I've added this issue to the SPIKE to investigate this.