Merging diagonal text together

[grimboto]

Hi I'm trying to merge these groups of text together but i'm having trouble keeping the spaces after i merge it with my current code.

BEFORE

AFTER

here is my current code

var textLayer = idoc.layers[0]
textLayer.name = "Text";


for (var i = 0; i < textLayer.groupItems.length; i++){

    var tempText = ""

    var anchor1 = textLayer.groupItems.textFrames[0].anchor
    var anchor2 = textLayer.groupItems.textFrames[1].anchor

    var TextOnAngle = IsTextOnAngle(anchor1[0],anchor1[1],anchor2[0],anchor2[1])

    var TextAngleDeg = TextAngle(anchor1[0],anchor1[1],anchor2[0],anchor2[1])


    for (var j = 0; j < textLayer.groupItems.textFrames.length; j++){

        if (j == 1){
            var newText = textLayer.groupItems.textFrames.duplicate(textLayer, ElementPlacement.INSIDE)

        }

        if (tempText == "") {

                tempText = textLayer.groupItems.textFrames.contents;

          } else {

                tempText = tempText + textLayer.groupItems.textFrames.contents;

                if(TextOnAngle){

                    if(j+1 < textLayer.groupItems.textFrames.length){
                        var tempAnchor1 = textLayer.groupItems.textFrames.anchor
                        var tempAnchor2 = textLayer.groupItems.textFrames[j+1].anchor

                        var CurrentAngle = TextAngle(tempAnchor1[0],tempAnchor1[1],tempAnchor2[0],tempAnchor2[1])

                        if(!(CurrentAngle <= TextAngleDeg+5 && CurrentAngle >= TextAngleDeg-5)){

                            //alert(CurrentAngle)
                                tempText = tempText + '\r'

                        }
                    }
                }
           }
    };

    //var newText = textLayer.textFrames.add()
        newText.contents = tempText

};
 textLayer.groupItems.removeAll()


//gets the angle of the text
function TextAngle(x1,y1,x2,y2){
    var xDiff = x1 - x2
    var yDiff = y1 - y2
    return Math.atan2(yDiff, xDiff) * (180 / Math.PI)
}


// works out if text is on an angle or not
function IsTextOnAngle(x1,y1,x2,y2){

    if((x1 >= x2-0.1 && x1 <= x2+0.1) || (y1 >= y2-0.1 && y1 <= y2+0.1)){
        return false
    }else{
        return true    
    }
}


//gets the angle of the text
function TextAngle(x1,y1,x2,y2){
    var xDiff = x1 - x2
    var yDiff = y1 - y2
    return Math.atan2(yDiff, xDiff) * (180 / Math.PI)
}


// works out if text is on an angle or not
function IsTextOnAngle(x1,y1,x2,y2){

    if((x1 >= x2-0.1 && x1 <= x2+0.1) || (y1 >= y2-0.1 && y1 <= y2+0.1)){
        return false
    }else{
        return true    
    }
}

}

if anyone has any ideas on how i can go about working out where to insert the spaces that would be great.

thanks in advance

[Larry G. Schneider]

There are no spaces in your text right now. Notice there are no anchors indicated at the right side of the d and the 5 below it. The text is just being concatenated as is. What is generating the individual characters in the text now?

[grimboto]

thanks larry it is being produced by a CAD program printing to PDF, I did realize there where no actual spaces but i don't know how i could work out where to insert a new space, If its horizontal you can just see if the next letters anchor point is at the current anchor point plus the width of the letter and if not add another space. But I'm not sure how to go about it for diagonal Text

[Larry G. Schneider · Accepted solution]

It may be easiest to rotate the text to horizontal, do the replacement of spaces and re-rotate the text. You could use a variable to store the rotation value.

[grimboto]

thanks Larry that was the idea i needed