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Article #15815Re: AS-2.0.2-Horizontal Scaling of Text
From: Shane_Stanley
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 01:26
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 01:26
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On Nov 6, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Peter Truskier wrote: > I don't think this is right. Humor us -- try this code: repeat until overflows is false tell parent story to set horizontal scale to 0.99 * horizontal scale end repeat > > I actually did my testing with a frame in which NO text was visible - > it was a two words, and the frame was to narrow for even the first > word to fit. And yet, the script did make it fit, AND ALL of the > characters still show 100% horizontal scale. If I were addressing only > visible characters, then it would never have broken out of the loop. Which is exactly what happened with your code here... > > Color me puzzled... It could be something else in your script that is affecting the target. -- Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>
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