Explanation: The program is simple. All five logical fonts defined by Java are used and a string displayed
after setting a specified font.
14.14 THE FONTMETRICS CLASS
Often, when drawing a string, it is important to know how big the image of the string will be. This information
is needed if one wants to centre a string on an applet, or wants to know how much space to leave between
two lines of text when they are drawn one above the other, or if the user is typing the string and a cursor is
needed to be positioned at the end of the string. In Java, questions about the size of a string are answered by
an object belonging ...
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