We are evaluating Telerik Reporting for various reporting scenarios. In one of the meetings it was asked if there was a way to set a textbox of a specific size (cangrow = false, canshrink=false, and the area being used is set appropriately) and have the size of the text automatically determined so that all of the text can be displayed within the defined area at the greatest possible font size.
From what I can tell there is not an easy way to accomplish this but I might be able to define a number of conditional rules to the textbox that check the length of the text and apply an appropriate style. While this would work I don't think that it is the easy solution they are looking for. This would be more of a trial and error scenario that could be very time consuming and difficult to maintain. Is there a better alternative that I am just not seeing.
From what I can tell there is not an easy way to accomplish this but I might be able to define a number of conditional rules to the textbox that check the length of the text and apply an appropriate style. While this would work I don't think that it is the easy solution they are looking for. This would be more of a trial and error scenario that could be very time consuming and difficult to maintain. Is there a better alternative that I am just not seeing.
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Hi Kevin,
Peter
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Generally by design TextBox item grows vertically to accommodate the text and no out of the box option is available to automatically reduce the font size to accommodate the text without vertical growing. Instead as you have guessed you will have to change dynamically the font size based on the strings length. Additionally our suggestion is to use monospaced font to simplify the font size calculations.
Kind regards,Peter
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Rod
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answered on 13 Aug 2018, 11:26 PM
Seagull Bartender have been able to do this for years and is an indispensable feature. Cmon guys, join the twentieth century.....
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Hello Rod,
Seagull BarTender is software specifically designed for creating and automating labels and barcodes and then printing them directly to a printer.
Telerik Reporting is an all round reporting solution with the aim of easy and flexible report building and supporting various export formats such as PDF, Excel, CSV, XPS, etc. The product supports many different report items (Table, List, Graph, PictureBox, CheckBox, TextBox) and it is not straight forward to implement auto sizing of the text elements. Still, you can post a feature request in our Ideas & Feedback portal.
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Nasko
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Seagull BarTender is software specifically designed for creating and automating labels and barcodes and then printing them directly to a printer.
Telerik Reporting is an all round reporting solution with the aim of easy and flexible report building and supporting various export formats such as PDF, Excel, CSV, XPS, etc. The product supports many different report items (Table, List, Graph, PictureBox, CheckBox, TextBox) and it is not straight forward to implement auto sizing of the text elements. Still, you can post a feature request in our Ideas & Feedback portal.
Regards,
Nasko
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Frank
commented on 22 Mar 2023, 07:10 PM
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ActiveReport has been using that feature for years now. Comon guys..
Todor
commented on 27 Mar 2023, 11:55 AM
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You may use Bindings to control the width/size of the report items. Currently, this is the mechanism we provide for customizing the size and implementing your own auto-sizing.