Right-justifying non-monospaced fonts in Graphics2D

The original Macintosh OS 1 had, in its toolbox, a function that would return the length, in pixels, of any string to be drawn in the font currently assigned to the graphics port. This made it easy to center or right-justify any text in any font. After much searching, I have been unable to locate anything comparable in Java. There's plenty of stuff for right-justifying monospaced fonts, but this is trivial to do by hand. I found two topics here addressing right-justification of text, but both were for monospaced fonts. There's also lots of stuff for right-justifying stuff in Swing components, but I'm working directly in a Graphics2D environment.

I appreciate that there's a problem in that a user's computer cannot be guaranteed to have any particular font in its library, but cannot the web-standard fonts be assumed to be available?

Is this problem devoid of a solution?

Have you looked at java.awt.font.TextLayout?

And since this is related to GUIs I shall move it to a more appropriate section.

Damn! I should have been able to find that on my own. I went ten pages deep in a Google search and never saw that. Yes, that appears to be the perfect solution. Thanks much!

You're welcome. I can't remember the finer details, but somewhere in the internal size computations of TextLayout there's a 1-pixel bug (which may or may not be significant in your use case). Shall post the link to the old SDN thread if I can find in on the OTN.

edit: https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=5366659�

No need for the reference for the 1-pixel error; I have a 5-pixel boundary that can absorb that. Thanks again.

Read that only after I'd found and added the link