size of bold Font incorrect using FontMetrics

Hi, i am buisy developing a textarea that can diplay images and color text using awt classes. I use FontMetrics to determen the size of the text so i dont have picutres in the middle of my text, but for some reason when i use a bold font the size is incorrect and the text becomes too long to display on my canvas.

Does anybody have any idea why this happens and is there a solution or workaround available?

Thanks for your time

Robert

[467 byte] By [borg-javadrone] at [2007-9-26 8:24:00]