Combine Font size according to character length and vertical text rules

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I am trying to combine 2 rules the first is font size according to character length the second rule is the vertical text rule. I have tried all different combinations with no luck. I have tried the font rule according to character length and using the Vertical Text checkbox in the advanced text effects and it is not cooperating with me. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

my coding that works separately is below:

 

if (Len(Trim(Field("TEXT"))) < 28) {

return '<z newsize="14.3"/>' + Trim(Field("TEXT"));

} else {

return '<z newsize="12"/>' + Trim(Field("TEXT"));

}

 

retstr = "";

 

for (i = 0; i <= Field("TEXT").length; i++)

{

if (Mid(Field("TEXT"),i,1) == " ")

retstr = retstr + "<p>"

else

retstr = retstr + Mid(Field("TEXT"),i,1) + "<p>"

}

return retstr;

[Dan Korn]

I am trying to combine 2 rules the first is font size according to character length the second rule is the vertical text rule. I have tried all different combinations with no luck. I have tried the font rule according to character length and using the Vertical Text checkbox in the advanced text effects and it is not cooperating with me. Any help is greatly appreciated.

The Vertical Text button doesn't do anything yet, as you have discovered. This will be activated in an upcoming release of FusionPro. Although it's intended mainly for Japanese text; English won't really be vertical unless full-width Unicode characters are used.

my coding that works separately is below:

 

if (Len(Trim(Field("TEXT"))) < 28) {

return '<z newsize="14.3"/>' + Trim(Field("TEXT"));

} else {

return '<z newsize="12"/>' + Trim(Field("TEXT"));

}

That code is all well and good, but you're returning in both cases, so nothing after that will ever get executed, nor have any effect on the output.

 

At any rate, I don't really see the purpose of that code. For what you're trying to do there, I wouldn't write any code at all; I would just use copyfitting to fit the text (click Overflow on the Text Frame Properties dialog, then select "Adjust Text To Fit"). You can always use the "Do not break on copyfit" setting in the Paragraph Formatting dialog if you want to copyfit just a single line.

 

Also, you should consider using the "Go Advanced" button and then the # (Code Block) button when you're posting code to the forum.

retstr = "";

 

for (i = 0; i <= Field("TEXT").length; i++)

{

if (Mid(Field("TEXT"),i,1) == " ")

retstr = retstr + "<p>"

else

retstr = retstr + Mid(Field("TEXT"),i,1) + "<p>"

}

return retstr;

That's basically the same as this:

return Trim(Field("TEXT")).split("").join("<p>");

(Note my use of a Code block here on the forum.)

 

I would just use that one-liner rule and turn on copyfitting.

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Thank you so much for your advice on both accounts.