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"Olav Kvern" <okvern@adobe.com> wrote in message

> But you can calculate the percentage using "out of the box" thinking
(i.e., sleazy hacking<g>). I don't know what platform you're using, but the
following approach (in pseudocode) would work:

Olav,

thank you for the suggestion! I work on Windows/VB. Could you help me with
some VB code?

In fact, what I would like to do, would be, provided the text is set in a
Multiple Master font with a width axis, and is full-justified:

1. Separate the lines in a story using hard line breaks (how can I do this?
:)
2. Left-justify each line and compare the width of the text (how can I do
this?)
3. Calculate the scaling factor for each line.
4. Now the difficult part: for each line, generate and register (install) an
MM instance of the Multiple Master font that would fit the scaled width (how
can I do this? I'd probably need to use the ATM API, but how?)
5. Assign the new MM instance to the respective line.

By using such approach, I could have "well-scaled" glyphs with no stem
scaling, so that the multi-composer "magic" would be preserved but also, the
even colour of the page would be maintained.

Adam