text height

[jawsfree]

I am trying to make a label for a beer can. The warning text is required to be 2mm in height. I have tried to use the text tool and set the size by mm but if I set it to 2mm it only make the text height 1.27mm when I am checking with the measure tool. I am using Calibri light font. Which direction is the text tool using to make the size?

[rich2005]

I do not know why ? Have you tried with some other font, However

Putting in the 2 mm text is like this here. Remember the 2mm is not the height of the lowercase it is the dimensions of a rectangle specified in the font file.

   

If you want to check what an image looks like printed, then turn off dot-for-dot in the view menu and set the zoom to 100%.
You can use a ruler to check the text height on your computer screen, although an exact 2mm might be difficult to measure .

   

[Ofnuts]

As Rich says, but if plain/undecorated text is an important part of the project, a typesetting app like Scribus is a better choice (Gimp can still be used to produce the image(s) inserted in the text.