stretch fonts vertically?

[matt del vecchio]

hello,

i am rendering some text using a barcode font. however it is coming
out quite short... i would like to increase it's vertical w/o
necessarily changing the horizontal.

anyone know of a way to do this? oddly, CSS only supports horizontal
stretching via the "font-stretch" property (wouldnt ya think theyd
implement both axis?!?).
thanks for any suggestions.
matt

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Matt Del Vecchio

[Eric Kenneth Bustad]

In article <24**************************@posting.google.com >,
matt del vecchio <ma***@petco.com> wrote:

hello,

i am rendering some text using a barcode font. however it is coming
out quite short... i would like to increase it's vertical w/o
necessarily changing the horizontal.

anyone know of a way to do this? oddly, CSS only supports horizontal
stretching via the "font-stretch" property (wouldnt ya think theyd
implement both axis?!?).

Use a very large font size, *then* compress it horizontally?

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= Eric Bustad, Norwegian bachelor programmer

[mattd]

an idea.. one of our guys said it didnt work well, but i havent
confirmed.

what i did is place two tags, one directly above the other w/ no
vertical spacing between the two: taller barcode. works..
matt

[Jan Roland Eriksson]

On 9 Dec 2004 09:30:54 -0800, ma***@petco.com wrote:

[...]

what i did is place two tags, one directly above the other
w/ no vertical spacing between the two...

That can be done on usenet too...

"Look Maa, one tag directly above another";

<uppertag>
<lowertag>

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Rex; who is in total dispair about the survival of terminology.