I'm trying to have text in my document but get the last two characters of the text contents to change size.
For example, I have a text layer in a group and I set the contents to "100ft". I would like to make the last two characters "ft" a different size than the rest of the text.
it's very easy!
1 choose your text layer
2 choose type tool from left side tools
click on your text with type tool selected
select letters that you want to change them sizes
from top panel choose any size you need
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So basically I have a textbox with a specific width and I need to know if the string I will put into it will either fit nicely in one line or take a second line. For example: I have
string v = "WERTYUIOSDFGHJKWERTYUISDFGHJKXCVBNSDFGHJ"
and a textbox that's 3000 in width.
At first I tried: if v.length = x then... where x is the length of the string that can fit into the textbox. But I soon found out that strings with mostly 'I' can fit more inside compared to a string of mostly 'M'. And that is where the problem lies. Is there a function that detects if the string is going to take/need a second line?
Another option is to create or use a 3rd-party Crystal Reports UFL (User Function Library). A list of 3rd-party UFLs is maintained by Ken Hamady here.
At least one of these UFLs provides functions that allow Crystal formulas to either:
a. specify as input the text, font name, font size, bold and italics status and get the required width (in pixels or twips), or
b. specify the available width for the text and get the maximum font size to fit, or the number of lines required for a given font size.
The advantage of using a UFL approach is that Crystal supports dynamic property expressions. That means that the result of the function call can dynamically control a property such as font size, height, position, etc.
I am currently building a word-template for a report. In this report are used red separators as part of the design. The separators are basically just images of red, curved lines.
Instead of copy and pasting these separators when needing them, is there a way to store the image somewhere in the document, allowing it to be inserted with just the click of a button in the ribbon? My first bet would be to create a macro somehow that would insert the image, however that would require the image to be stored in a very specific path on the computer.
As this document is gonna be used by lots of people without this image stored on their harddrive, i need another way.
Thanks so much in advance!
You could insert the images into bookmarks created via SET fields in, say, the document header, then reproduce them elsewhere in the document via cross-references. The images in the SET fields wouldn't themselves be visible.
For example:
{SET Image1 "Actual image1"}
to create the bookmark and
{REF Image1}
to display the image.
No code required.
By default, the size of the pictures when inserted via a cross-reference will be the same size as they are in the SET field, plus they'll be formatted as in-line with text.
If they're meant to be full-width images, simply make sure to insert the cross-reference into a new paragraph with 0 indenting.
To constrain the images' displayed size to something smaller than the width they're inserted into the SET field at, insert them into a table whose row height and/or column width has the required fixed dimension.
To apply text-wrapping, insert the cross-references into a table and format the table's wrapping as 'around'.
Note: The field brace pairs (i.e. '{ }') for the above example are all created in the document itself, via Ctrl-F9 (Cmd-F9 on a Mac or, if you’re using a laptop, you might need to use Ctrl-Fn-F9); you can't simply type them or copy & paste them from this message.
I need to present arbitrary text, which might include line breaks, in a square control with word wrap such that the square is as small as possible but sufficiently large to display the text in its entirety.
This is the closest I've gotten so far:
Load the text into a temporary rich text box, Rich, with BorderStyle = none
I increment the value of size, width=height=size until Rich.ClientRectangle.Width = Rich.Width.
If I could now extract the visual lines one by one I would be done, as I could then save the original string with appropriate line breaks for later display.
Visual lines are not, of course, the same as Rich.Lines array.
Any ideas?
Thank you.
so I've been trying to generate a report. I've tried quite a few things already but there always seems to be problems. I'm currently trying iTextSharp 4.1.6.
My current strategy is to use LibreOffice to create a document with editable pdf fields, or I guess they are called "AcroFields". I'm not sure since I can't find a definition. But anyways, I assume that all of these are "AcroFields":
But if I put all of those into a form and export as pdf only some of them show up as AcroFields:
var reader = new PdfReader(File.ReadAllBytes("abc.pdf"));
foreach(var field in reader.AcroFields.Fields)
{
Console.WriteLine(((DictionaryEntry)field).Key);
}
> Text Box 1
Check Box 1
Numeric Field 1
Formatted Field 1
Date Field 1
List Box 1
Combo Box 1
Push Button 1
Option Button 1
Notice how Label Field 1 is not present. If it were present then doing a text replace might be easy. Except it's not present so it's looking like even iText can't do a simple text replace in a pdf. Is this true? How would you replace text in a pdf document using iTextSharp?
Notice how Label Field 1 is not present.
As there is no AcroForm form field type "label", form labels usually are drawn as regular page content in PDF files.
If it were present then doing a text replace might be easy. Except it's not present so it's looking like even iText can't do a simple text replace in a pdf. Is this true?
Indeed, in general there is no simple text replacement in a PDF.
How would you replace text in a pdf document using iTextSharp?
I would determine the bounding box coordinates of the text to replace using the iText text extraction feature with some extension that returns text plus coordinates. Then I'd remove that text by redaction using iText's PdfCleanUp... classes. Finally I'd add the replacement text as new text in the bounding box determined at start.
Unfortunately for you, both good text extraction and redaction are not present in your version 4.1.6; for this approach you should update at least to 5.5.x.
Alternatively, though, as you've been trying to generate a report, I assume the template design is in your hands. In that case you can put your labels into read-only text fields which you can change (they are read-only only to GUI users).
So I got this text of which I can't know the length beforehand because it depends on how many entries there are in an internal table (see below). The table is given to the Smartforms FM in my report. The text itself works fine with a dynamic text variable, but under that text I need a horizontal line. The Line needs to be right beneath the text at all time. So far I only got a line with a fixed position, which does not lead to the result I want.
If it is possible, how can I get the line to change position based on the length of the text? So that it is right under the text at all time, no matter how many lines the text got.
DATA: l_string TYPE string,
lt_stream_lines TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF string.
loop at i_tab.
* reading one line of i_tab into l_string.
APPEND l_string TO lt_stream_lines.
APPEND '' TO lt_stream_lines.
endloop.
CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERT_STREAM_TO_ITF_TEXT'
EXPORTING
stream_lines = lt_stream_lines
lf = 'X'
TABLES
itf_text = gv_text.
* gv_text then has the full text I want to display
You must have a Main Window containing your Text element followed by a dummy Template element for the horizontal line (one empty cell with the top horizontal border in black color and other borders transparent).
Create a Template element via the context menu:
Draw the border (here I exaggerate the proportions "a little bit"!):
Preview result: