Re: Any ideas on working out number of characters(approx) that can be entered into a field

2013-08-26 Thread Geoff Canyon
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Re: Any ideas on working out number of characters(approx) that can be entered into a field

2013-08-26 Thread Jan Schenkel
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Re: Any ideas on working out number of characters(approx) that can be entered into a field

2013-08-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/26/13 11:22 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:07 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: See the "pageRanges" property in the dictionary. It gives a list of character ranges that fit the height of the field. Crazy question -- what's the benefit of returning a character range instead

Re: Any ideas on working out number of characters(approx) that can be entered into a field

2013-08-26 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:07 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > See the "pageRanges" property in the dictionary. It gives a list of > character ranges that fit the height of the field. Crazy question -- what's the benefit of returning a character range instead of a line range? ___

Re: Any ideas on working out number of characters(approx) that can be entered into a field

2013-08-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/26/13 1:37 AM, planix wrote: Hi All, I am looking for ways to determine the approximate number of characters that will fit into a text field of fixed height and width. I am guessing there is some way of doing this by working with the line height, font size, and the height and width of the

Re: Any ideas on working out number of characters(approx) that can be entered into a field

2013-08-26 Thread Scott Morrow
d is full, create a new one, > and then flow the text into the next text field. This would go on until all > the text is entered. Then we print the cards (probably 4-6 to a page) and > viola - palm cards sorted. > > cheers > > > > -- > View this message in conte

Any ideas on working out number of characters(approx) that can be entered into a field

2013-08-25 Thread planix
cards (probably 4-6 to a page) and viola - palm cards sorted. cheers -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Any-ideas-on-working-out-number-of-characters-approx-that-can-be-entered-into-a-field-tp4669110.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list