Hi Holger,
thanks for this.
I've been using this for a while now, but it quickly becomes apparent that
a word with a lot of 'l's and 'i's will need to be bigger than a word with
a lot of 'o's and 'c's.


Thanks,
Ron Ganbar
email: [email protected]
tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 [UK]
     +972 (0)54 255 9765 [Israel]
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On 5 March 2013 05:17, Richard Bobo <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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> "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 <
> [email protected]> 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: [email protected]
> 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 <[email protected]> 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:  [email protected]
>> 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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected]
>> tel: +44 (0)7968 007 309 <%2B44%20%280%297968%20007%20309> [UK]
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