Thing-a-Day 2011 #21 - Auto-scaling Hershey fonts in JavaScript

This post used to be on Posterous. I rescued my posts before Posterous shut down and am now sharing them here.

Ok, this is kind of fun, even though the code is very naive.

I've added a height-check at the end of my line-breaking code. If there are too many lines of text to fit within the allowed space, the algorithm will rescale everything and try again:

Auto_scale_hershey_js
This isn't great for real-time text flow, but it is fine for fitting text, I think.
#canvas #hershey #javascript #resize #text #thing-a-day-2011
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