Font.subStringWidth returns 0 inadequately

i'm developing with MIDP 1.0 for a # Nokia 7210 (serie 40).
the function Font.substringWidth(string, off, len) return 0 in some case when len !=0 and off is in the good range.
how come ?

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    FontListRef = sADMDialog->GetItem(g->qcCheckDialog , lst_FontsTo);
    FontList = sADMItem->GetList(FontListRef);
    //for ( int q = 0; q< numLayers; q++ )
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        error = sAILayer->GetLayerTitle( layer, title );
        if(strstr((char*)title,"SCAN")==0 && strstr((char*)title,"Bounding Box")==0)
            error=sAIArtSet->NewArtSet(&artSet);
            error=sAIArtSet->LayerArtSet (layer,artSet );
            error=sAIArtSet->CountArtSet (artSet, &count );
            FontCount = sADMList->NumberOfEntries( FontList );
            int fontfound=0;
            for(long j=0;j<count;j++)
                error=sAIArtSet->IndexArtSet (artSet,j,&path );
                error = sAIArt->GetArtType(path,&artType);
                    if (artType==kTextFrameArt)
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                        AIPathStyle style;
                        AIPathStyleMap styleMap;
                        long index;
                        TextRangesRef selRef;
                        TextRangeRef textRange;
                        sAITextFrame->GetATETextRange(path,&textRange);
                        if ( error ) throw( error );
                        ITextRange itext( textRange );
                        ICharFeatures features=itext.GetUniqueCharFeatures();
                        bool isValid = false;
                        IFont textfont=features.GetFont(&isValid);
                        FontRef FntRef=textfont.GetRef();
                        sAIFont->FontKeyFromFont(FntRef,&fontKey);
                        MessageBox(NULL,"Fonts","2",0);
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                        sAIFont->GetUserFontName(fontKey,fonttext,forfont);
                        //sAIFont->GetFullFontName(fontKey,fonttext,forfont);
                        sprintf(buf,"%s",(char*)fonttext);
                        MessageBox(NULL,buf,"Font Name",0);
                        bool Exists=CheckIfValueExists(ArtAssess.FontList,buf);
                        if (Exists==false)
                            strcat(ArtAssess.FontList,buf);
                            MessageBox(NULL,ArtAssess.FontList,"Fonts Used",0);
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    MessageBox(NULL,"End font","",0);
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When dealing with text frames that contain multiple styles such as different fonts, kerning or point sizes etc. You need to split the text frame into text runs.
Using an ITextRunsIterator you can essentially split the text frame into a list of uniquely-styled text ranges.
        AIArtSet artSet;
        long artCount = 0L;
        AIArtSpec spec = {kTextFrameArt,kArtHidden,0 };
        sAIArtSet->NewArtSet(&artSet);
        sAIArtSet->MatchingArtSet(&spec, 1, artSet)
        sAIArtSet->CountArtSet(artSet,&artCount);
        for (int index = 0; index < artCount ++index)
            TextRangeRef trRef = NULL;
            AIArtHandle art = NULL;
            sAIArtSet->IndexArtSet(artSet,index,&art);
            sAITextFrame->GetATETextRange(art,&trRef);
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Why doesn't the line break change w/font size??

Hello,
I am trying to print out a simple paragraph (String object) to the printer. I am trying to get the text to wrap properly based on font size. I've search on the posts and can't find the answer.
It looks like the LineBreakMeasurer is only working with default font size? No matter what font I use in the graphics, the string always seems to break in the same column? Any ideas?
Here is a sample of the code I'm using.
Note - the actual printing (draw) is commented out.)
Thanks,
Jim
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import java.text.*; //for AttributedCharacter
import java.awt.font.*; //for FontRenderContext
public class TestPrint implements Printable {
     String textToPrint;
     AttributedString as;
     AttributedCharacterIterator aci;
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     Font font = new Font("TimesRoman", Font.PLAIN, 8);
     public TestPrint(String text) {
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          textToPrint = text;
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          aci = as.getIterator();
          PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
          job.setPrintable(this);
          if (job.printDialog() ) {
               try {
                    job.print();
               catch(Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
     public static void main(String args[]) {
          String testMsg = new String("TEST TEST TEST - The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back. " +
                         "How now brown cow? This will be a fairly long line so I can see how the text will wrap " +
"around on the printer when it prints. This is the end of the test string.\n");
          TestPrint tp = new TestPrint(testMsg);
          System.exit(0);
     public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int idx) {
          if (idx > 0)
               return Printable.NO_SUCH_PAGE;
          Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
Font fonta = g2d.getFont();
System.out.println("orig graphics font = " + fonta.getName() + " - " + fonta.getSize() );
          g2d.setFont(font);
Font fontb = g2d.getFont();
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          float xo = (float)pf.getImageableX();
          float yo = (float)pf.getImageableY();
          int y = font.getSize();
          FontRenderContext frc = g2d.getFontRenderContext();
          //aci is the AttributedCharacterIterator
          LineBreakMeasurer measurer = new LineBreakMeasurer(aci, frc);
          float wrappingWidth = (float)pf.getImageableWidth();
System.out.println("wrappingWidth = " + wrappingWidth);
          while (measurer.getPosition() < aci.getEndIndex() ) {
System.out.println("measurer position = " + measurer.getPosition() + " next offset = " +
                                   measurer.nextOffset(wrappingWidth) );
               String printLine = textToPrint.substring(measurer.getPosition(), measurer.nextOffset(wrappingWidth) );
               measurer.setPosition(measurer.nextOffset(wrappingWidth));
System.out.println("printLine = " + printLine);
               //g2d.drawString(printLine, xo, y + yo);
               y += font.getSize();
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          return Printable.NO_SUCH_PAGE;
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Just for everyone elses reference, below is the modified code that works for me.
<pre>
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.print.*;
import java.text.*; //for AttributedCharacter
import java.awt.font.*; //for FontRenderContext
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class PrintTest3 implements Printable {
String textToPrint;
AttributedString as;
AttributedCharacterIterator aci;
Font font = new Font("Arial", Font.PLAIN, 18);
//Font font = new Font("TimesRoman", Font.PLAIN, 8);
public PrintTest3(String text) {
//text represents one paragraph of text
textToPrint = text;
as = new AttributedString(textToPrint);
aci = as.getIterator();
PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
job.setPrintable(this);
if (job.printDialog() ) {
try {
job.print();
catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
public static void main(String args[]) {
String testMsg = new String("TEST TEST TEST - The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back. " +
"How now brown cow? This will be a fairly long line so I can see how the text will wrap " +
"around on the printer when it prints. This is the end of the test string.\n");
PrintTest3 tp = new PrintTest3(testMsg);
System.exit(0);
public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat pf, int idx) {
if (idx > 0){
return Printable.NO_SUCH_PAGE;
Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
g2d.setFont(font);
as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FONT, font);
float xo = (float)pf.getImageableX();
float yo = (float)pf.getImageableY();
int y = font.getSize();
//aci is the AttributedCharacterIterator
LineBreakMeasurer measurer = new LineBreakMeasurer(aci, g2d.getFontRenderContext());
float wrappingWidth = (float)pf.getImageableWidth();
while (measurer.getPosition() < aci.getEndIndex() ) {
String printLine = textToPrint.substring(measurer.getPosition(), measurer.nextOffset(wrappingWidth) );
measurer.setPosition(measurer.nextOffset(wrappingWidth));
g2d.drawString(printLine, xo, y + yo);
y += font.getSize();
return Printable.PAGE_EXISTS;
</pre>

[AS][CS5] Find and replace a missing font

I have an overly complex script that compares the document's fonts missing fonts to the system fonts and makes a best guess. It was written to handle conversion of Multi-ad Creator documents to InDesign. It has worked 100% of the time so far. It needs a LOT of cleaning up and tweaking to make effecient, but that is not the point of my question. Everyday I am sent an InDesign file I have to work with and everyday it will has a missing font. Arial (OTF).
I ran my script thinking it would replace it with Arial (TT). No problem...
Ran it... nothing.
When I use the find dialog in Indesign to search based on the applied font it works, the returned properties in AS contain:
return properties of find text preferences
font:"Arial (OTF)"
Ok, fine so I try...
set properties of find change text options to {case sensitive:false, whole word:false, include footnotes:false, include hidden layers:false, include locked layers for find:true, include locked stories for find:true, include master pages:true}
    set applied font of find text preferences to "Arial (OTF)"
    set applied character style of change text preferences to "Page&Header"
    tell document 1
        set myFoundItems to change text
    end tell
Nothing.
This has pretty much worked on every other font I've tried, so what am I doing wrong here?

All right, back at it....
I've run into even more fonts that it is an issue with. My basic thoughts on this are as follows: When bringing a document from Multi-ad Creator to InDesign the fonts are named in a way that InDesign does not recognize them. The thing is those fonts are really fonts that are on my system. It is simply a matter of rearranging the name of the applied font to match what InDesign would recognize. The thing is InDesign will allow me to use Find/Change to modify the fonts in the document.
Now the fonts I've run across that give me an issue are fonts that do not correspond to any font on my system. I do not have any TrueType fonts, this document I opened today did...
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
    set myDocument to active document
    tell myDocument
        set myPage to page 1
        return properties of every font
    end tell
end tell
{{font family:"Helvetica (TT)", PostScript name:"Helvetica-Bold", parent:document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", index:1, name:"Helvetica (TT)     Bold", object reference:font "Helvetica (TT)     Bold" of document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", status:not available}, {font family:"Helvetica (TT)", PostScript name:"Helvetica", parent:document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", index:0, name:"Helvetica (TT)     Regular", object reference:font "Helvetica (TT)     Regular" of document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", status:not available}, {font family:"Times (TT)", PostScript name:"Times-Bold", parent:document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", index:3, name:"Times (TT)     Bold", object reference:font "Times (TT)     Bold" of document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", status:not available}, {font family:"Times (TT)", PostScript name:"Times-Roman", parent:document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", index:0, name:"Times (TT)     Regular", object reference:font "Times (TT)     Regular" of document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", status:not available}}
Ok, so let me try this (commented out are the different ways I've tried):
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
    set myDocument to active document
    tell myDocument
        set myPage to page 1
          --return properties of "Helvetica (TT)" --"Helvetica (TT)     Bold"
        return properties of font "Helvetica (TT)" -- "Helvetica (TT)   Bold"
        set myDocumentFonts to name of every font
    end tell
end tell
Adobe InDesign CS5.5 got an error: Unable to retrieve the font's UID from its name.
I was able to get the properties of the font using:
return properties of every font whose PostScript name is "Helvetica-Bold"{font family:"Helvetica (TT)", PostScript name:"Helvetica-Bold", parent:document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", index:1, name:"Helvetica (TT)     Bold", object reference:font "Helvetica (TT)     Bold" of document id 34 of application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5", status:not available}
Now I thought of trying the following:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
    set find text preferences to nothing
    set change text preferences to nothing
    --Set the find options.
    set properties of find change text options to {case sensitive:false, whole word:false, include footnotes:false, include hidden layers:false, include locked layers for find:true, include locked stories for find:true, include master pages:true}
    set applied font of find text preferences to every font whose PostScript name is "Helvetica-Bold"
    set applied font of change text preferences to "Helvetica"
    tell document 1
        set myFoundItems to change text
    end tell
end tell
Now this does result in something, the find of the Find/Change dialog is looking for Helvetica + Bold. The only problem with that is it isn't looking for the TT font.
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
    set myDocument to active document
    tell myDocument
        set myfind to properties of every font whose PostScript name is "Helvetica-Bold"
    end tell
    set find text preferences to nothing
    set change text preferences to nothing
    --Set the find options.
    set properties of find change text options to {case sensitive:false, whole word:false, include footnotes:false, include hidden layers:false, include locked layers for find:true, include locked stories for find:true, include master pages:true}
    set applied font of find text preferences to name of myfind
    set applied font of change text preferences to "Helvetica"
    tell document 1
        set myFoundItems to change text
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end tell
And nothing happens.. other than it trying to search for Helvetica + Bold
I'll try some other ideas later when I have more time.

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