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Can check if a word exceeds the paragraph width?
I am trying to create a template that uses some paragraph texts.
If I get the case that some word is too long and has to be broken, I would like to make the font smaller so it fits.Does anyone know if I can check if a word exceeds the paragraph width by expressions?
Andrei
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The only thing I can think of would be a hack, but it might be useful. You could have a source text expression like this:
if (time < 0)
“your_extra_long_word_goes_here”
else
value;Then you could use sourceRectAtTime() with a negative time to get the width of just that word. Then I’m not sure what you do, but hopefully that’s useful…
Dan
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I think I was not clear enough, but you gave me an idea anyway.
I had a boxText paragraph that had a pretty small width. I was afraid that some words the client may use may overextend and be broken in half.
I ended up creating an invisible text layer that had as value the longest word from the boxText.
I then created a ratio variable that was botTextWidth/longestWordWidth. And i multiplicated the font size with this ratio if it were smaller than 1.Thank for the hint.
Andrei
My Envato portfolio.
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