cc.LabelTTF: spacing between characters - user-interface

Is there a way to change a space between characters? Some ttf font strings look very compressed.
The maximum closest thing I've managed to find is cc.FontDefinition
But it doesn't look like it contains anything specific I need.

As far as I know there is no method to change space between characters but you can change letters position via accessing it.
label.getLetter(index);
returns the character as a sprite. And then you can set its position.

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ZPL command how to reduce a barcode's size of the same ratio?

I would like to reduce my barcode's size but still be the same ratio like picture below.
From
Original Size
To be
Reduced Size
Here is my ZPL code.
^XA
^FO50,20
^BY2,2,20
^BCN,,N,N,N,D
^FDZWW011601512345^FS
^XZ
Please help me how do I deal with it?
Thank you.
This website is great for testing against: http://labelary.com/viewer.html.
Assuming you don't want the position to move it should just be changing
^BY2,2,20
to
^BY1,1,10
The API Reference guide can be found https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/zebra/manuals/en-us/software/zpl-zbi2-pm-en.pdf
Don't forget to take into consideration the print density, i.e. at 152 DPI you probably want something like
^FO150,20
^BY1,1,10
But at 600 DPI
^FO550,80
^BY4,1,40
EAN-13 Text Modifications
If you are using the the inbuilt EAN-13 text function i.e. ^BEN,40,Y,N you can't modify the text. It is to a standard. You can however add your own text e.g.
^XA
^FO100,20
^BEN,40,N,N
^FD011601512345^FS
^CF0,48
^FO90,80^FD011601512345^FS
^XZ
^BEN,40,N,N The first N tells the printer to not generate the number underneath.
^CF0,48 Is the select font function of the printer, its first parameter is a default printer font (can be found in the Standard Printer Fonts section of the link above). The second parameter is the font height. If needed there can be a 3rd parameter which alters the font width, though isn't needed.
^FO90,80^FD011601512345^FS Sets the field origin of the string starting at the location defined by ^FO. ^FDXXXXXXXX^FS draws the string.

does length of barcode image change because of barcode text

I was reading about barcodes, just a general query I came up with:
Does the length of barcode image change because of the text in it?
For eg: will the length of a barcode with 986262 be different than 111111?
Generally speaking, you can consider barcodes "monospaced". The only cases for which this isn't true are when a character needs an escape code to be represented.
For example in Code 128B, you need to escape to Code 128A to issue a control character like TAB, or in Code 128A you need to switch temporarily to Code 128B to embed a lowercase alphabetical character.

Ruby PDF::Reader matching bullet point with Regex

I have parsed a pdf document in Ruby with PDF::Reader. The bullet point of the pdf file appears in my parsed text as a strange cube with F0B7 inside like this (I also attached a print screen):
__
|F0|
|B7|
I would like to know if I can match this "bullet point" with regex and if so, what would be the appropriate way to do it? I have absolutely no idea to tackle this issue as I am not even sure that this is part of the string in the first place. Thanks.
This is a unicode symbol with codepoint F0B7.
Unfortunately your Ubuntu installation has a default font that misses that glyph, and when glyph is missing in the font definition, the common approach is to draw it’s codepoint in a square.
The regexp to match it would be:
/\uF0B7/

Changing Font Size of Japanese (Unicode) characters

I have a NSPopUpButton which contains either English or Japanese Strings read from a plist file according to the System's Language. Now when the Language is English I am able to change the font size by using code such as -
[auxStatePopup setFont: [NSFont fontWithName:#"Helvetica-BoldOblique" size:10.0]];
but Using such technique I am not able to change Japanese font size even if I tried by setting some Japanese font name which I googled and found out.
I want to do that because Japanese characters move slightly up when used. I intend to manipulate that upward movement by decreasing font size.
Thanks for any help..
OR
any way to move text in NSPopupButton downwards?
My impression is that the two samples are not using the same font. Please try to put a text with characters from both sets and see what happens.
Also try not to customize the font size and even the font face.
I also suspect that the text rendering engine may had overridden some of your changes due to the text length. iOS text rendering may try to change the font size of letter spacing if the text does not fit the control. So make some tests with shorter texts.
BTW, I think that you were mean to say that you want bigger font size for Japanese not smaller. In the screenshots the Japanese text is already too small to be properly read by anyone.

Where can I find this unicode character?

I'm looking to find a unicode character that looks like ≪ or ≫ but rotated 90º and 270º to use in a GUI to signify something can be dragged vertically.
Does anybody know of a character like this?
How about:
︽ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET (U+FE3D)
︾ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET (U+FE3E)
Well if you are looking for unicode characters here you have all http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/en/general-info/unicode.html
i dont know if there are ones that you are looking for but for example you have arrows in row 2B00 also i saw few eariler
As far as I can see there aren't any symbols that you want.
But it might be appropriate for you to use the varios other arrow symbols that are defined starting at U+2190 (←). For example U+21d3 is ⇓.
Under Windows you may use the charmap Tool with font set to Arial Unicode. Or have a look here: http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=8592
I'll put this here.
Just in case ツ

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