Re: [Bulk] Re: Font metrics in AFPDS? -- MIDRANGE-L

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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.

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