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   Hello,

i try to convert a Textfile to a PDF File. I do this with DrawTextBox or FitTextBox with a AddStandardFont(0). Everything runs fine, the PDF is created. But how can i keep the formating of Spaces and Tabs?

The Textfile looks like this:

|***********************************************|
|  Satzart                 :          |         |
|  Versions-Nummer         :          |         |
|  Kunden-Nummer           :          |         |
|  Lieferanten-Nummer      :          |         |
|  �bertragungs-Nummer ALT :          |         |
|  �bertragungs-Nummer NEU :          |         |
|  �bertragungsdatum       :          |         |
|  Ust.IdNr. Empf�nger     :          |         |
|  Ust.IdNr. Lieferant     :          |         |
*-----------------------------------------------*

the created PDF File looks like this:

|***********************************************|
|  Satzart                 :          |         |
|  Versions-Nummer         :          |         |
|  Kunden-Nummer           :        |  |
|  Lieferanten-Nummer      :        |    |
|  �bertragungs-Nummer ALT :          |         |
|  �bertragungs-Nummer NEU :        |  |
|  �bertragungsdatum       :        |         |
|  Ust.IdNr. Empf�nger     :        |  |
|  Ust.IdNr. Lieferant     :        |  |
*-----------------------------------------------*

i think the DrawText looses the Tabs?!

Could anyone can help me in this? Is there a better Function than DrawTextBox or FitTextBox

Best regards

Klaus Hentschel

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KHentschel Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 26 Feb 06 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote KHentschel Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Textimport Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 8:21AM
	Hello, i try to convert a Textfile to a PDF File. I do this with DrawTextBox or FitTextBox with a AddStandardFont(0). Everything runs fine, the PDF is created. But how can i keep the formating of Spaces and Tabs? The Textfile looks like this: \|**********************************************\| \| Satzart : \| \| \| Versions-Nummer : \| \| \| Kunden-Nummer : \| \| \| Lieferanten-Nummer : \| \| \| �bertragungs-Nummer ALT : \| \| \| �bertragungs-Nummer NEU : \| \| \| �bertragungsdatum : \| \| \| Ust.IdNr. Empf�nger : \| \| \| Ust.IdNr. Lieferant : \| \| -----------------------------------------------* the created PDF File looks like this: \|**********************************************\| \| Satzart : \| \| \| Versions-Nummer : \| \| \| Kunden-Nummer : \| \| \| Lieferanten-Nummer : \| \| \| �bertragungs-Nummer ALT : \| \| \| �bertragungs-Nummer NEU : \| \| \| �bertragungsdatum : \| \| \| Ust.IdNr. Empf�nger : \| \| \| Ust.IdNr. Lieferant : \| \| -----------------------------------------------* i think the DrawText looses the Tabs?! Could anyone can help me in this? Is there a better Function than DrawTextBox or FitTextBox Best regards Klaus Hentschel

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 9:22AM
	Hi! It's the correct font (courier) but it's not enough to add the font. SelectFont is needed i think. Hope this helps. Best regards, Ingo

KHentschel Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 26 Feb 06 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote KHentschel Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 9:34AM
	Hi Ingo, i add the SelectFont into my Programm and also this do not keep the formating. The output was also before (without SelectFont) in Courier. Thanks Klaus

waynefulcher Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 23 Jun 08 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 99	Post Options Post Reply Quote waynefulcher Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 12:24PM
	Klaus, I am trying to do the same thing. My program will look for text files in a folder and convert them to pdfs. I can't seem to get it to work. Could you post a code snipit showing how you convert the text file and save it? Thanks Wayne

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Jun 08 at 6:54PM
	You can set string (with positions) by string ... But that's not really a fast way ;-) DrawHTMLText or DrawHTMLTextBox can be worth to try ... I'm out of office - so only few tips ;-) Good luck, Ingo

KHentschel Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 26 Feb 06 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote KHentschel Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jun 08 at 3:35AM
	Hello Wayne, here is the example. I develop with MS Visual FoxPro lcText = FILETOSTR(GETFILE()) loPDF = CREATEOBJECT("iSED.QuickPDF") loPDF.UnlockKey('your Code') lnWidth = FLOOR(loPDF.PAGEWIDTH()) lnHeight = FLOOR(loPDF.PAGEHEIGHT()) loPDF.SetPageSize('A4 Landscape') lnFontID = loPDF.AddStandardFont(0) loPDF.SelectFont(lnFontID) loPDF.FitTextBox(10,lnHeight,lnWidth,lnHeight,lcText,0) loPDF.SaveToFile(PUTFILE()) RELEASE loPDF Where is your Problem? Best regards Klaus

KHentschel Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 26 Feb 06 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote KHentschel Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jun 08 at 4:03AM
	Hi Ingo, i change the FitTextBox into DrawHTMLTextBox. Now i can not see any Text. What i want is to put plain Text into a PDF, not HTML Text. Best regards Klaus

waynefulcher Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 23 Jun 08 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 99	Post Options Post Reply Quote waynefulcher Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 Jun 08 at 12:23PM
	Well one thing to consider if trying to use a horizonal tab character is "where do you specify how many spaces equals one HT?" Unless there is a property for that then I feel like you will need to manually convert the HT to spaces. This is more of a conceptual things for example. At my shop we have several programmers and our code editor used to insert HT into the code but we quickly realized that different programmers had configured their editor to translate a HT into different number of spaces so after one person wrote some code nothing would line up right for another programmer viewing it. Once you get around the HT -> Spaces conversion, then you may experience what I am currently experiencing which is when I draw text to a page, if the text has more than one consecutive space it will remove all but one. So "abc xyz" gets converted to "abc xyz". I know I encountered this same thing when converting text to XML and back using an XML DOM parser and determined that is the standard in xml conversion so I am assuming the draw text is being ran through some type of conversion and I wonder if I have to URL encode the text first? I know this will not help much but I can see we are somewhat in the same boat which is trying to figure out how to simply draw text to a PDF and have it match our expectations. wayne

KHentschel Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 26 Feb 06 Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote KHentschel Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Jul 08 at 6:34AM
	yes Wayne, "we sit in the same boat" :-) as i told you i program with Visual Foxpro. I have to do the following also in my program: - take a plain Textfile with multiple pages (Textfiles have no PageBreak) - make single Pages - convert the whole dokument into PDF File - convert the last Page into PDF File Ok, i have done it know completly in FoxPro. The Spaces are accurate and i have single Pages. Best regards Klaus

waynefulcher Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 23 Jun 08 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 99	Post Options Post Reply Quote waynefulcher Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Jul 08 at 12:00PM
	I finally got mine working as well so for the sake of other readers... I found that the method FitTextBox will replace multiple spaces with a single space but the method DrawText does not. So as it turned out I had to Draw each line of each page separtely. Now I have another stange thing, one of my Text files works out to be around 3,500 pages. My logic was taking about 5 minutes to convert so I found what was taking so long and now I will post another message to try to get an answer. What I found was if I remove a single line of code which was PDF.SetPageSize('Letter') then it only took about 10 seconds to create the PDF. I call SetPageSize() right after each time I call SelectPage().