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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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