Labels and optimising font size

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Hi,

my application simulates a panel of scientific instruments. Digital
readouts are provided by label components embedded in a
TableLayoutPanel with the rows and columns set to percentages of size,
so the labels expane and contract when the application is resized. So
far so good. My customer wants the maximum text size possible for easy
readability, but the labels seem to require a lot of 'white space'
around any text they are given. Seems to be about 20% of height and
possibly more of width is empty space. Is there any way to reduce that
unused area?

Second problem occurs on resize of the application - is there a way to
determine the maximum size of font that will fit in the available label
size without clipping the text?

Mike B
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