I am trying to send data to a specific MergeField. The data are sent correctly. Each line of the data has for specific characters. For example the data to the field may be:
12345 FIRST\nABCDE.F SECOND
(it cannot get the newline so i just so it through character \n)
Now in the printed document each character has its one width, '1' is smaller than 'E' for example. So the data are not alligned within the field. I tried the following fonts: Arial, Tahoma, Courier New. Nothing helped.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Ps the data are sent through an executable built by Visual C++ 5.0!!
You should probably use a tab-stop based layout. Set your tab-stops every, say, centimetre or so (i.e. just big than the widest character in your font) and add a tab before each element that needs to be aligned.
With this you shouldn't need to find a fixed width font and can use something more attractive.
Edit: Out of interest, I wonder why you have no luck with Courier New which is fixed width.
Maybe you could post a screenshot somewhere so we can have a look at your problem in more detail.
Try Courier - it does not have kerning (kerning = variable character width)
Also in the Font window there is a check box that allows you to apply kerning to fonts of a certain size or above - setting this value to a large font size may remove kerning.
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I have made a webpage which uses a <pre> block to display text with a monospace font. I've tried the default font, as well as a bunch of ones such as "Fixedsys" or "Courier New", etc. The same result happens no matter what I do:
This is what it looks like if I use a Unicode checkmark: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Dyocg.png
This is what it looks like if I instead use a "X": https://i.stack.imgur.com/VxvRj.png
It seems as if various Unicode symbols do not respect the fixed width that each character is supposed to have with "monospace" or "fixed-width character" fonts.
I don't want to use "X" instead of the checkmark because it looks very ugly. But on the other hand, it also looks very ugly when the "columns" don't line up...
Is there anything I can do about this
Please check what fonts are actually used by the browser. For Chrome, refer to: https://makandracards.com/makandra/59967-css-how-to-find-out-the-rendered-font-in-chrome.
Two sollutions come to mind:
Find a monospaced font that supports the symbols you want to use. You might want to check you my answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/73313342/13663706
Apply the letter-spacing (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/letter-spacing) to your symbol to compensate for the 'wrong' width.
I have a variable-width container (screen width) and fixed left and right margins. Remaining area gives me a constraint for maximum text width, where I'm placing text of variable content (multiple languages). I want text to fit into that width without truncation, wrapping if needed. Text is relatively short - it may fit into single line, likely to fit into 2 lines and will fit into 3 lines for sure.
I want to avoid cases like (2) - where text wraps into long and a short line. It does not look nice. Instead I would like it to wrap more evenly, like in case (3).
For the demo purposes I've hardcoded hand-picked margins, but I want solution to work automatically for any text content and any container width.
Is it achievable using built-in Flutter widgets, or I need to implement something custom, similar to https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/auto_size_text?
I want to display text with directwrite in a specified rectangle and with a specified font size, the text outside the rect should be cutted off.
By searching I found something about CreateTextLayout but it looked like it isn't possible to define the font size with it.
Thanks for answers.
It's not something DirectWrite is responsible for, unless you're using IDWriteBitmapRenderTarget. If you're using DrawText/DrawTextLayout from Direct2D you simply need to use D2D1_DRAW_TEXT_OPTIONS_CLIP option. If you are using DirectWrite bitmap target, it's enough to set target size to layout size, or to blit layout size portion to your destination context.
There is IDWriteTextFormat::SetTrimming(). When applied (with SetTrimming(&DWRITE_TRIMMING{DWRITE_TRIMMING_GRANULARITY_CHARACTER,0,0}, nullptr);), overflowing characters [glyph clusters?] and lines are omitted.
Could someone please explain the CSS line-height attribute. It's like the only one I don't know.
The name is self-explanatory; defines the height of a line of text. This is one CSS property that's easier to show than to explain:
Look at my example here if you want to see the CSS and a working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/G59VX/.
It sets the height of a text line independent of the font-size. If you increase it, the lines will appear to be moving further apart, vertically.
The line-height is just that, it adjusts the full hight of a line of text, irregardless of font size. A healthy line height gives a paragraph of text a little breathing room and can make it much easier on the eyes. I usually do a line-height of 1.25em give or take.
Line-height defines the amount of space used for lines, most commonly in text. The primary use of line-height is making text readable. It is recommended to use unitless values of any other unit that isn’t static like the px unit.
A more detailed use is explained here.
How do you determine the length of a string of text in Arial Bold font, and then center it in VB6?
We are not using a "label" or "picture box" to print the text to the screen. We are sizing the text on the fly, and allowing the user to scale the size of our application to their liking. We write the text to screen using code.
One way is to have a hidden picture box and setup the font specs of that picture box the way you want.
Then use the TextHeight and TextWidth methods of the PictureBox to take your measurements. The Units will be in whatever scalemode the Picture Box is set to.
If you are printing directly to the printer or form then just set your font FIRST then take your measurements.
To center it
MyText = "Hello World"
<displayarea>.FontName = "Arial"
<displayarea>.FontSize = 14
<displayarea>.FontBold = True
TextWidth = <displayarea>.TextWidth(MyText)
TextLeftCoordinate = <displayarea>.ScaleLeft+<displayarea>.ScaleWidth/2-TextWidth/2
<displayarea>.CurrentX = TextLeftCoordinate
<displayarea>.Print MyText
Substitute displayarea with whatever object you are using.
Based on your updated answer note that the hidden picture box suggestion isn't used to print. It is only get text measurement. However you are printing directly to the form so you just need to use the code example above.
I can't remember the specifics (it's been about 3 years since I last used VB 6), but there's a method on Form called something like "MeasureString". It takes the string, and measures it according to the font settings of the form.
Also, here's a comment posted by Jason Lepack in case I've misunderstood and over-complicated your requirements:
"Labels usually have an alignment property. If you set it to align to center then, regardless of the font face it should center in the label".
There are Win32 GDI functions you can invoke: see for example GetTextExtentPoint32 at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534223(VS.85).aspx
Your best option may be Form.TextWidth, which appears to return the width of a string in twips. I've just taken this approach in order to dynamically size a button based on the length of the label that needs to appear inside it.
There is also a corresponding function called Form.TextHeight which would allow you to do the same thing in the vertical dimension.
Make sure that you set the Font property of the form to match the Font property of the control you're intending to measure the text for, otherwise you'll get incorrect results.
Read more at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa267168(VS.60).aspx