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Re: width of column id name column
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Re: width of column id name column


  • Subject: Re: width of column id name column
  • From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:12:20 +0200

FYI, Smile's "measuretext" command does that:

measuretext "turn left" font {text font:"Arial", text size:40, text spacing:3, line spacing:1.1}
-- {1.5, -10.0, 160.3984375, 46.0}


Emmanuel


On Jun 23, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Christopher Stone wrote:

On Jun 22, 2011, at 22:40, Robert Poland wrote:
I can find the length of the text in the column id name column but to set it I need this in pixels, not characters. Since this text is not fixed width a simple conversion multiplier won't work.

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Hey Bob,

I fooled with that years ago and gave it up as a bad job.

The only way I can think of to manage it is to find out the pixel width of each character in the Finder font and create a conversion table. You'll either have to measure them yourself or find out which typeface is being used and see if there's an existing chart.

PITA.  :)

I did some looking on the net, and it seems that TCL might have some functions to measure string width in a give font. TCL is way over my head at the moment though.

--
Best Regards,
Chris

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