Re: [Bulk] Re: Font metrics in AFPDS?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I took it that the OP's problem was to fit the fields onto existing 
pre-printed forms.  It wasn't clear to me where he was going, but it 
sounded like he wanted to change font sizes up&down to adjust to the 
size of the pre-printed spaces allocated.  It further sounded like he 
wanted to do it field by field, line by line, on the fly  -  if a 
person's name had a lot of w's, or was especially long, the font chosen 
would be smaller.  Short names and names with a lot of i's would have a 
larger font.

When one is calculating the with of individual letters, one is getting 
in to the fine grit sandpaper.



On 3/19/2015 12:26 AM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
> > I don't even understand what you mean by this.  How are XML or JSON
> > relevant?
>
> Just a guess. Brad may be thinking of using JavaScript to transform XML or
> JSON into browser DOM objects which render as "pages" similar to how
> browsers intrinsically transform HMTL to DOM objects which render as
> "pages".
>
> Incidentally, browsers transform HTML to DOM objects faster than JavaScript
> transforms XML or JSON into DOM objects.