Re: Font metrics in AFPDS?

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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