Center text within a field?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Congrats, Trevor. If you've come up with an acceptable handler that  
performs well, then my suggestion is entirely moot at this time. I'm  
surprised that you were able to come up with a good solution in the  
time frame you mention. Great!

Joe Wilkins

On Jun 7, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Jun 6, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>
>> I realize it would take a lot of initial work, but you guys seem  
>> up for it: why not just use a lookup table with the exact values  
>> you need for each font "condition" listed?
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> I think the time to research all of the possible scenarios would  
> take longer then it did to right the image analyzer handler (~1/2  
> hr) as I would have to do this for Mac/Win and even then I wouldn't  
> know if it would work with fonts I don't have installed. The  
> problem I kept running into is that different fonts at the same  
> size can have very different heights.
>
>> Of course, you can limit the amount of preparation by just  
>> limiting the acceptable fonts and perhaps some of the other ranges  
>> as well. This way the table of values could be expanded over time  
>> and by others if need be without coming up with any "exact"  
>> formulation at the outset. Just a thought!
>
> Limiting the text size ranges and fonts would have been an option  
> and I almost went that route. But now that I have a handler to  
> analyze the glyph I don't have to worry about it no matter what the  
> user throws at it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Learning Systems
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>
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