CharacterPropertiesBase.Scale Property

Gets or sets the font’s scaling percentage.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.API.Native

Assembly: DevExpress.RichEdit.v25.1.Core.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.RichEdit.Core

Declaration

C#

int? Scale { get; set; }

VB.NET

Property Scale As Integer?

Property Value

Type	Description
Nullable<Int32>	The scaling percentage (from 1 to 600); or null (Nothing in Visual Basic) for a mixture of values.

Remarks

Use this property to stretch or compress text horizontally by a percentage of the current size. If the property value is more that 600, an exception is thrown.

The code sample below shows how to specify 150% scaling for a document’s third paragraph:

C#

Document document = wordProcessor.Document;
var targetParagraph = document.Paragraphs[2];
var cP = document.BeginUpdateCharacters(targetParagraph.Range);
cP.Scale = 150;
document.EndUpdateCharacters(cP);

VB.NET

Dim document As Document = wordProcessor.Document
Dim targetParagraph = document.Paragraphs(2)
Dim cP = document.BeginUpdateCharacters(targetParagraph.Range)
cP.Scale = 150
document.EndUpdateCharacters(cP)

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

word-document-api-examples/CS/CodeExamples/FormattingActions.cs#L73

// Change character spacing and scaling.
cp.Scale = 150;
cp.Spacing = -2;

VB.NET

word-document-api-examples/VB/CodeExamples/FormattingActions.vb#L61

' Change character spacing and scaling.
cp.Scale = 150
cp.Spacing = -2