Longer Paths

[_Tom_R_]

I've searched Google and this forum, to no avail (wow, life can quickly become a string of search engines). I have hundreds of type paths that are too short for the number of type characters, but I don't want to reduce the character size or change the font. In other words, is there a script to make paths longer in CS3? If not, are there VB or JavaScript properties, etc. that will make a path longer?

System: WinXP 32, AI CS3

[try67]

There are several scripts that do this. You need to search for "overset", which is the name for text that exceeds its frame.

Here's one example I've found (but didn't try myself, though): http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?tag=overset-type
And I think that JET also has a similar script.

[JETalmage]

Tom is talking about "type paths", which I take to mean text-on-a-path objects. My script workaround for overset textFrames is not written to do anything for text-on-a-path objects.

Assuming I am correct about the kind of objects Tom is dealing with, here's the thing:

What I will call PathType objects are usually not just straight paths. Their practical reason for existence is to allow text to follow an irregular shape, like labels along the roads in a map. Simply scaling the spine path via script would be easy. But that would wreck the spine paths' being parallel to (for example) the roads of the map.

Tom needs to better explain what kind of objects he is dealing with, and what exactly he means by "make longer".

JET