Unwanted Text Resizing

[UrbanCyborg]

If you reduce the boundaries of a text label horizontally VMD starts to resize the font, even though it claims the font size is unchanged. This is particularly egregious in a multi-line label, where contracting the boundary enough to get the lines to force-break is also enough to change the font size, making the vertical size change in a way that's dependent on the character count. This means that adjacent multi-line labels won't line up correctly if their character counts are much different.

This is also a problem when programmatically writing to a label; if the written string infringes on the boundaries a bit too much, the text resizes, even if the font is mono-spaced, again causing situations where adjacent labels, or labels with rapidly-changing text won't line up correctly.

Is this a bug, or is there a way to prevent this from happening?

[seal58]

On my view, this is not a bug, but a feeless service of VMD.

But you are right. Sometimes this service is unwanted.
There should be a choice between resizing and automatic force-break.

[UrbanCyborg]

Ah, the v2.5.5 update appears to have fixed this problem.