Re: [xep-support] Scaling content to fit a block

Robert Goldsmith wrote:
> Does anyone know if it is possible to scale text content to fit a block?

Hello Robert,
XSL FO does not provide a way to achieve it.

> I have an fo:block of a set size and I need to be able to scale the
> font-size of variable content to fit the space without wrapping. Any ideas?

IMHO, no chance. If the content is pure text, it could probably be
possible to: estimate the area required by the content at given
font-size, compare it to the space provided by the containing
block(-container), alter the font-size accordingly. All in XSLT (there
even is an sqrt routine, googlable). However: breaking text into lines
may not happen at arbitrary places. This is likely to spoil everything.

Why would you need to store arbitrary content in a fixed box?

Regards,
Michael Sulyaev
RenderX

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Received on Tue Apr 21 07:39:48 2009