Adapt text Frame Height

[Olivier]

Hi everybody,

I am looking for a way to measure the necessary height of a text frame and adapt it depending on the content the final user will put in MarcomCentral's Store.

Is it possible to use the function call FusionProTextMeasure ?

May someone have produced some template like this ?

 

Many thanks for help

 

Olivier

 

Using FP VDP 9.0.3, AcrobatPro 9 and MarcomCentral

adapted-texte-frame-height.pdf

[Dan Korn]

Put the text into a table, either with a single cell with lines broken up by <br> tags, or with one row for each line of text. Set the shading and borders on the table with tags or the FPTable object.

[Olivier]

Thank you Dan, but I don't see the way to know how many lines the table will have, I don't know what the final user will have to place in MCC's Store .

 

Any example ?

 

Regards,

Olivier

[Dan Korn]

Thank you Dan, but I don't see the way to know how many lines the table will have, I don't know what the final user will have to place in MCC's Store .

That doesn't matter. You don't need to know how many lines there will be. You can just put all the text into a table with a single cell, and the height of the cell (actually the table row) will automatically grow as large as needed to fit the text.

Any example ?

Something like this:

var table = new FPTable;
table.AddColumns(12000);
table.AddRows(1);
var theCell = table.Rows[0].Cells[0];
theCell.SetBorders("Thin", "Cyan", "Top", "Bottom", "Left", "Right");
theCell.ShadeColor = "Yellow";
theCell.ShadePct = 100;
theCell.Content = "Here is some text with multiple lines.<br>Line 2<br>Line 3";
return table.MakeTags();

If you already have the contents of the text frame built up in the Text Editor, you can copy-and-paste it all into a new Formatted Text Resource, and then call out that resource from the rule, like so:

var table = new FPTable;
table.AddColumns(12000);
table.AddRows(1);
var theCell = table.Rows[0].Cells[0];
theCell.SetBorders("Thin", "Cyan", "Top", "Bottom", "Left", "Right");
theCell.ShadeColor = "Yellow";
theCell.ShadePct = 100;
theCell.Content = Resource("Resource1").content;
return table.MakeTags();

[Olivier]

Many thanks Dan, it is working fine !!!

All the best,

Olivier