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From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.tex
Subject: "optimally" scaling text to fit given bounding box
Keywords: scaling fonts labels bounding box
Message-ID: <578@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 90 05:33:28 GMT
Organization: Photon Graphics,  Houston
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I have a specific text formatting problem and would appreciate some advice.

I would like to make lots of labels for many sizes of 3-ring binders, hanging
files, etc.  These labels would consist of a thin (maybe dotted) rule
as a bounding box with text inside.  I would like to be able to enter
the snippet of text and have the program automatically scale the font
and/or break the lines to fill the available space.  Since I have
maybe 100 labels, I would rather enter a simple text file that consisted
of the strings and out pops the formated labels, ready to be printed
on some heavier card stock and cut out for use.  I know I could
do this all by hand with various drawing programs, but I am looking
for something with a bit of intelligence.

Does anyone know of any program that does this type of font scaling
and line breaking automatically?

Thanks alot!

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A. Lester Buck    buck@siswat.lonestar.org  ...!uhnix1!lobster!siswat!buck