check out Ben Nadel's blog and download his and Ray's ImageUtils cfc from riaforge. ImageUtils has 2 functions that will do what you need, and Ben has a blog entry about getting text width.
http://www.bennadel.com/blog/977-ColdFusion-8-ImageDrawTextArea-Inspired-By-Barney-Boisvert-.htm http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1150-GetTextDimensions-For-Finding-ColdFusion-Image-Text-Dimensions.htm http://imageutils.riaforge.org/ hth Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com/ Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to take a piece of a longer text and display it so that it is > exactly 4 lines long and 200 pixels wide. If I use the regular text string > functions (right, left, mid, etc.) I can create 4 lines with a certain > number of characters, but depending on the text, sometimes they are too long > or so short that I could have fit another word on the line. Is there a > function that takes into account the actual linear length in pixels of a line > of text formatted in the current style? Also the original text could have > HTML codes in it, so I would want to ignore these when selecting the text so > that I don't count non-displaying characters or leave open ended HTML in my > page. > > If I have the wrong approach, any guidance would be appreciated. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318707 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
