Apple

When I run this the result seems to indicate;

text font: 0,0

text size: -5.33447265625

text spacing: 80.4130859375

line spacing: 15.33447265625

While I can believe the line spacing (single line?) the others seem totally bogus.

What am I missing here?

TIA,

Robert Poland - Fort Collins, CO

On Jun 23, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Emmanuel LEVY wrote:

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.

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Best Regards,
Chris