How get the width of a rendered text?

Igor Gorbounov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.print
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Is there any way to get the height and width of a text (produced by
gnome-print-show(...)) being printed? Is here Pango of any use?
I need a precise arrangement of text blocks on my reports.
	Thanks,
		Igor Gorbounov
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