Re: Font metrics in AFPDS?

[Marco Facchinetti <marco.facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James, we did it for at lest 20 fonts but it's a part of a commercial
package.

As Nathan said we generated 2 files with:

1 - Font Name, Font Size, Character, Pixel Width
2 - Font Name, Font Size, Line height

So we are now able to print left/rigth/center aligned, rotated text,
paragraphs and so on.

The only way I know is through a printer output.

HTH

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2015-03-18 23:42 GMT+01:00 James H. H. Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Fellow Midrange Geeks:
>
> My first (and so far, only) project involving both an externally-described
> print file and AFPDS keywords is going rather well, but it could be a lot
> better if I could determine the set-width of a character string, in the
> font in which it is presented.
>
> There are numerous fields that have too little space on the page to
> accommodate the full field length, in which I'm applying variable
> horizontal scaling, based on the RPG %LEN(%TRIM()) of the field. They'd
> work a lot better if I could calculate the horizontal scaling from the
> actual set-width.
>
> One of those fields, in addition, is one where it would be nice if, for
> values that take up less than the available space even without horizontal
> scaling, I could accurately center the value (which of course can't be done
> without knowing the set-width.
>
> Surely I'm not the first one in this position?
>
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> JHHL
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