<div dir="ltr">Turns out it was just label lines with text set to xl size which were appearing at 1:5000. But the text was rendering smaller than xl because my lines were not that long.<div><br></div><div>Having played with label lines a bit more I understand how they work now. What I don't like is how the text character spacing gets wider when the line is longer than is needed for the text when rendered at the specified size. What I would like is an option to specify that the text should shrink to fit the line when the line is shorter than the text would be at the scale specified, but not be stretched out when the line is too long. That way I could put my labels on long lines and not see them stretched too much at more detailed scale rendering (1:1000), but have them shrink to stay within the bounds of the line ends when rendering at much less detailed scales (1:5000).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Footleg</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 March 2014 06:29, Bruce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce@tomo.co.nz" target="_blank">bruce@tomo.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:navy">></span></font>Playing with the scale
layouts, I notice that label lines still display text at 1:5000, but label
points do not. <font color="navy"><span style="color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">That seems odd.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><div class="">
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:navy">></span></font>It also appears that
label lines stretch the text to match the length of the line regardless of the
font scale set in the options for the label line. <font color="navy"><span style="color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">That is my understanding as I described
here <a href="http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/drawingchecklist#lines" target="_blank">http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/drawingchecklist#lines</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:navy">></span></font>I was hoping there would
be a way to set text so that if the font size makes the text size shorter than
the line when the text would not stretch out along the full line length, but if
the text scale made it larger than the line length then it would be limited to
the length of the line. This would prevent text growing to be excessively large
and run over the cave passage, but at scales where smaller text scales are set
it is not stretched out so much along the line. Is something like this
possible?<font color="navy"><span style="color:navy"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Not as far as I know. The text
should only overwrite cave passage if the line crosses the passage or if the
line is very close to the passage. The maximum text height is controlled
by –scale xs to xl, so you have very good control of that.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Once I figured out how it works I decided I
like the behavior of ‘line label’;<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">-you set the (maximum) text size, and the
text path and length exactly where you want it<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">-if the text won’t fit its size is reduced
until it does.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">What I have found, if the scales are not
too divergent, the desirable text path length is about the same regardless of
the scale.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Where this doesn’t work for me I use
‘point label’.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></font></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Bruce<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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