Text Layer Scale Based on Amount of Characters

[Dan Ebberts]

You could try something like this for the layer’s scale:

[12/text.sourceText.length*100,value[1]]

Change the 12 to the number of characters you want for a line scaled to 100%. It won’t be real accurate unless you use a mono-spaced font, but it might be close enough.

Dan

[Thomas Hardy]

Thank you so much, but it scales only the width, not the height.

Any ideas how to fix that?

Thomas Hardy.-
Newbie and Learning.

[Dan Ebberts]

s = 12/text.sourceText.length*100;
[s,s]

Dan

[Thomas Hardy]

Amazing! Thanks!

Where are you reading about expressions !? I can’t find any good guide or doc.

Thomas Hardy.-
Newbie and Learning.

[Thomas Hardy]

Ok, now I understand a bit how it works, but I’m trying to so something that I don’t know if possible and I can’t find any list of “commands” or something.

Can I assign different values to scale depending on the amount of characters?

I mean, something like

if text.characters = 10 then
[100,100]

if text.characters = 11 then
[90,90]

if text.characters = 12 then
[80,80]

if text.characters = 13 then
[70,70]

if text.characters = 14 then
[60,60]

if text.characters = 15 then
[50,50]

Is this possible with expressions?

Thomas Hardy.-
Newbie and Learning.

[Dan Ebberts]

Like this:

s = (20 – text.sourceText.length)*10;
[s,s]

Dan

[Thomas Hardy]

Nop, that’s the same but using only a 10% scale with 20 chars.

What I need is specify a scale for each character value.

If 20 characters written then 100% scale
If 18 characters written then 95% scale
If 16 characters wtitten then 90% scale

etc…

Thomas Hardy.-
Newbie and Learning.

[Dan Ebberts]

Well, I’m confused because last time you said 10 characters at 100%, but this gives the 20 at 100% progression:

s = 50 + text.sourceText.length*2.5;
[s,s]

If that’s not it, I’m really clueless.

Dan

[Thomas Hardy]

I will explain, let’s say I have a red rectangle

https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/695/screen1xx.jpg/

This rectangle is the allowed margin for the text, any partial text out of this rectangle looks bad.

Now, this looks ok:

https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/20/screen2nc.jpg/

If I use this expression:

s = 12/text.sourceText.length*100;
[s,s]

When I have less than 5 characters the size is HUGE and out of margin, it must be centered in the rectangle even if only 1, 2, 3 or 5 characters too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDIBK2uYcx4

I want it to look like this:

https://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/811/screen4q.jpg/

Thomas Hardy.-
Newbie and Learning.

[Dan Ebberts]

Something like this, maybe:

s = 12/Math.max(text.sourceText.length,6)*100;
[s,s]

Dan