Horizontal Scale on text

Hi friends,

is there a way to define a rule to adjust the horizontal scale of a variable text to fit in a frame ? Sometimes result is better than simply adjust the font size.

Thanks for any advice !

Olivier Giroud

FusionPro VDP Designer 8.0.13

Mac OS 10.6.8

Acrobat Pro 9

Marcom Central

Yes, you can use the <setwidth newsize=***> tag to modify the widths of characters. You can also set the seventh (last) parameter of the CopyfitLine function to true to modify just the widths. For example:

return CopyfitLine("", Field("Your Field Name"), "Arial", 20, 200, 6, [color=SeaGreen]true[/color]);

More about CopyfitLine here:

http://forums.pti.com/showpost.php?p=6251&postcount=3

Yes, you can use the <setwidth newsize=***> tag to modify the widths of characters. You can also set the seventh (last) parameter of the CopyfitLine function to true to modify just the widths. For example:

return CopyfitLine("", Field("Your Field Name"), "Arial", [color="Red"][size="4"]20, 200, 6[/size][/color], [color=SeaGreen]true[/color]);

What do those numbers mean? 20, 200, 6 I mean. Is 20 the horizontal percentage, 200 the tracking/kerning and 6 the point size?

return CopyfitLine("", Field("Name"), "Adobe Garamond Pro", 20, 137, 6, false);

The parameters to CopyfitLine, in order, are:

• staticPart - text to not be resized

• dynamicPart - text to be resized (after staticPart)

• font - font family name

• size - base point size (in points)

• width - width of the frame or column (in hundredths of points)

• minimum - minimum point size (in points)

• adjustWidthOnly - true/false (optional - see below)

For the "adjustWidthOnly" parameter, if you leave it off (or specify false), the function will adjust the point size, that is, both the width and height, of the glyphs. If you specify true, the function will adjust only the set width of the glyphs, but not the height, which basically means they will look squished horizontally.