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     Posted: 01 May 2013 at 5:38am
I have to design a pallet label to cover product form many customer with many different products.
 
I only have so much space available on the pallet label but want to make each product description as big as possible.
For for example a description of "ABC" I could go to a font size of 100, but a description of "123456 Achme Window Cleaner" i could only go to a font of 25.
 
I could do if Len = 32 then font = 25 and do that for every possible length but i was thinking maybe there is a more elgant solution that someone has already discovered.
 
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Quote hilfy Replybullet Posted: 01 May 2013 at 6:01am
Rather than using every possible size individually, I would do it with size ranges - something like this:
 
if len(field) >= 24 and len(field) < 27 then 25...etc.
 
Also, you'll want to use a non-proportional font, like Courier New - that way every letter will be the same width.  With proportional fonts, each letter has its own width - for example, "i" is much narrower than "O".
 
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Quote Lord Yorkshire Replybullet Posted: 01 May 2013 at 9:51pm
Originally posted by hilfy

Rather than using every possible size individually, I would do it with size ranges - something like this:
 
if len(field) >= 24 and len(field) < 27 then 25...etc.
 
Also, you'll want to use a non-proportional font, like Courier New - that way every letter will be the same width.  With proportional fonts, each letter has its own width - for example, "i" is much narrower than "O".
 
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That makes sense. I have experianced a little difficulty where a certain string length will fix perfectly, then the same string length will be too big. This is obviosuly down to the structure of the characters, so IIIIII would fit but OOOOOO would be too big.
 
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Quote Lord Yorkshire Replybullet Posted: 02 May 2013 at 3:11am

I have encountered a further problem. The length of the words makes a difference. So "Yorkshire Lamb 9" might fit perfectly but "10 Lamb Yorkshire" would require Yorkshire to go on a second line. So even though it is only 1 character extra, it affects 9 characters of the word.

 
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