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] url: http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/ 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 > Armstrong-White > http://armstrong-white.com/ > > Email: [email protected] > 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 < > [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] >> +972 (0)54 255 9765 <%2B972%20%280%2954%20255%209765> [Israel] >> url: http://ronganbar.wordpress.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing [email protected], > http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > [email protected], http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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