Text: Keep words from splitting and text per column estimate

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2 total messages Started by Nathan_Rosaaen Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:52

#157

Author: Nathan_Rosaaen
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:52

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I have two questions:

Background: I'm using convertRasterToPDF to go from psd to pdf.

Within the psd, are two text columns. I'm taking a stab at how many characters should fit in the left column, then move the remaining characters to the right column.

I'm not a designer, but know enough to realize it's very challenging to guess how many characters can fit in an area of a certain size (font, font size, actual characters, how to account for breaks (carriage return/line feed. Was the break near the beginning, middle, or end...)

Now, my questions:

1. Is there an option to turn off the breaking up of a word, forcing the entire word to the next line (it adds a hyphen, the client prefers to keep the words together).

2. Is there any general guidelines, calculations, rules of thumb regarding how many characters of a given font and font size fit an a defined area (say 2" wide by 4" high). Maybe taking in to consideration that some letters are used more often that others?

Or, is there a better way to handle two columns of text, one next to the other (like a newspaper column), filling the first column, then moving to the next?

Thank you,
Nathan Rosaaen

Re: Text: Keep words from splitting and text per column estimate

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Author: Bob_Emerson
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:26

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1. You can set the hyphenation options for each paragraph of text in your Photoshop template. You can turn it off completely, turn it off for words less than x characters, etc. AGS will use those settings.

In some situations, using Photoshop's "No Break" character formatting may work. See:
 <http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/52577.htm>
It doesn't work well with long runs of text.

2. I don't know about guidelines but there's another possiblity. AGS will warn you when the text didn't fit. See the Knowldege base article at:
 <http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/52561.htm>

In your API code, you could guess or calculate how much text will fit, check for the warning, change the amount of text and/or the font size, try again, check again, etc.

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