Re: How can I fill text?

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From: Chris Calabrese[mav]
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1989 00:25

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In article <2200001@hpcilzb.HP.COM>, cnc@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Chris Christensen) writes:
> Does anyone have a sample of postscript function to fit a string to a box
> of a given size? What I want is for the string to start a new line before
> it goes outside of the box. I guess another way of saying this would be 
> how can I fill text?


This is in the Adobe Blue Book (Adobe Ssytems Incorporated,
PostScript Language Tutorial And Cookbook,
Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-10179-3)

Page 179 starts Program 12 / A Simple Line Breaking Algorithm,
which give code for a procedure to break lines up
to a given width and show them on the page.
It could be easily modified for much more general use, I'm sure.

Of course, this doesn't fill, but the basics are there.
-- 
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From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav])
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Subject: Re: How can I fill text?
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