Hi Holger, I've been trying out your suggestion and I am wondering where the number 5000 came from? Is it somehow related to the project's full size format setting or something else…?
Thanks, Rich Rich Bobo Senior VFX Compositor Armstrong-White http://armstrong-white.com/ Email: richb...@mac.com Mobile: (248) 840-2665 Web: http://richbobo.com/ "Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny." - Mahatma Ghandi On Mar 4, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Holger Hummel|Celluloid VFX <hol...@celluloid-vfx.com> wrote: > hi Ron, > > not 100% exactly what you're looking for, i guess, but maybe a starting point. > put this expression into the size knob of the Text node: > > 5000/[string length [value message]] > > works ok for one-liners (sometimes needs an additional whitespace at the end). > needs a bit of playing with the value that suits your needs best instead of > '5000'. > and, of course, if you have line breaks in your text that makes things more > difficult. > in the worst case maybe you'd need a python function to return the size value > based > on more factors than just the number of characters. > > cheers, > Holger > > > Am 04.03.2013 22:02, schrieb Ron Ganbar: >> That would be good. Yes. >> The only way I can think to do this is by calling up the bounding box (don't >> confuse this with the Text node's box property, I mean the dotted line >> bounding box - the proverbial DOD) but that creates a feedback loop >> currently, it seems. >> >> >> Ron Ganbar >> email: ron...@gmail.com >> tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK] >> +972 (0)54 255 9765 [Israel] >> url: http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/ >> >> >> On 4 March 2013 22:57, Rich Bobo <richb...@mac.com> wrote: >> Ron, >> >> I'd love that, too. And, I'd add the ability for it to scale up to fit. >> Essentially, a scale-to-fit would be great… >> >> >> Rich >> >> Rich Bobo >> Senior VFX Compositor >> Armstrong-White >> http://armstrong-white.com/ >> >> Email: richb...@mac.com >> Mobile: (248) 840-2665 >> Web: http://richbobo.com/ >> >> "What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power >> and magic in it." >> - Johann von Goethe >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 4, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Ron Ganbar <ron...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> can anyone think of a way to automatically control the font size of text in >>> the Text node so a line of text always remains in the text box? >>> At the moment, if some text is longer than the box it splits itself up and >>> continues in another line. I want the text to become smaller instead. >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> Ron Ganbar >>> email: ron...@gmail.com >>> tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK] >>> +972 (0)54 255 9765 [Israel] >>> url: http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users
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