Re: Font metrics in AFPDS?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One thing I tried, with some success, was to create a testing document 
of only

1___+__10____+___20____+___30 ...1
2___+__10____+___20____+___30 ...2
3___+__10____+___20____+___30 ...3
4___+__10____+___20____+___30 ...4

that filled the page's printable width and height.

Then I printed it on the form I had to fill.

With that technique a lot of problems, but not all, went away.


On 3/18/2015 5:42 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> 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?
>
> --
> JHHL