Dave Crozier wrote:
Gentlemen,
I wonder if any of you have come across this problem before and successfully
solved it.
We have a works "spec sheet" that defines each parameter of a customer job and
prints out on a SINGLE sheet of A4 all the parameters that a machine operator requires.
Some of this data is not fixed length i.e 2 fields that are purely descriptive so in the
space we have available for each field we need to display the data in the largest font
available for the space available. Note that this is in a report and I can use a udf to
change the font of a field before it is printed using the Report Listener.
However, I have had mixed success using the sysmetric and fontmetric calls in
order to determine how large the font should be.
Anyone else solved this problem?
Not solved the problem using sysmetric or fontmetric but what about
having your own rules to determine the size of the font. Depending on
the number of lines for the two fields and how wide they go just apply
successively smaller fonts as they hit certain limits. Not actually
tried variable fonts myself (yet) and this would need some testing but
just an idea.
Peter
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