Measuring the length of a piece of text

Hi,
I'm trying to take a piece of a longer text and display it so
that it is exactly 4 lines long and 200 pixels wide. If I use the
regular text string functions (right, left, mid, etc.) I can create
4 lines with a certain number of characters, but depending on the
text, sometimes they are too long or so short that I could have fit
another word on the line. Is there a function that takes into
account the actual linear length in pixels of a line of text
formatted in the current style? Also the original text could have
HTML codes in it, so I would want to ignore these when selecting
the text so that I don't count non-displaying characters or leave
open ended HTML in my page.
If I have the wrong approach, any guidance would be
appreciated.

check these out:
http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1150-GetTextDimensions-For-Finding-ColdFusion-Image-Text-Dime nsions.htm
http://www.bennadel.com/blog/977-ColdFusion-8-ImageDrawTextArea-Inspired-By-Barney-Boisver t-.htm
http://imageutils.riaforge.org/
(both of the above functions are
included in this great cfc by Ray & Ben)
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

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