Re: How: calculate the length of a text

[Clay Leeds]

You could use a monospace font (e.g., font-family="Courier New, Courier, 
monospace"), measure the width of each character, and then count the 
number of characters.

Of course, the font-size, will be significant. 8pt Courier text is a 
little <2mm wide. You'd also have to consider that spaces at the end of 
a line may be removed in favor of a linefeed.

Hope this helps!
Web Maestro Clay
Unger, Joachim wrote:
How can I calculate the length (in mm) of a text before output?
Is there a solution f�r FOP?
Regards,
Joachim

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