Any way to shrink font size to fit width?
leenwebb - September 16, 2009 - 14:55
| Project: | Imagecache Actions |
| Version: | 6.x-1.6 |
| Component: | Text Actions Module |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Hi all,
I continue to love this module! It makes my clients think I am VERY fancy.
One of the features I love in Signwriter is that it can dynamically change the font size in order to make text fit in a particular space. I notice that over in #375086: Automatic text wrapping there is a patch to set a text width. I was thinking of making a little hacky-mashup for myself that combined that text-width patch with the auto-font-shrinky code from Signwriter.
Are there any things I need to look out for with this approach? (Or has someone already written something like this??)
Thanks for any guidance -
Eileen
#1
Well I'm actually working (slowly in the background) on a rewrite of the text rendering process. As in that issue, I'd like to be able to see signwriter and imagecacheactions using the same code.
However I looked at the signwriter code and decided it wasn't ripe for abstracting, so busted out
imageapi_text and signwriter2
So I'm saying that imageapi_text+textrender is where imagecache_actions is going, code-wise. If you'd like to try out imageapi_text, that would be really cool. I've not published it yet, only because I wanted to complete the use-case examples, and show how it could be used as a base api for menuwriter too...
... Still, I have not looked at text wrapping or scaling though. Wrapping can be through the attribute 'white-space' I think. I'm not sure about scale-to-fit...
In my experience, re-scaling text produced irregular results. They were correct ... but side-by-side it made the results look cheap. So I've not got to doing that.