Non-breaking spaces in DrawText not displayed

Hi.

I'm having a similar problem to that exposed here:

http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/spaces-in-drawtextbox-not-displayed-in-pdf_topic1288.html

In order to maintain spaces between words when using DrawTextBox, I've created a function that substitutes Chr(32) with Chr(160). I call this function whenever I have to put out text on a PDF, regardless of whether I'm going to use DrawText or DrawTextBox.

The problem is that, quite surprisingly to me, DrawText is "eating" non-breaking spaces Chr(160), behaving exactly the opposite than DrawTextBox.

Is this another "feature" or is it a bug?

Thanks,

Bozzy


Edited by bozzy - 09 Mar 12 at 11:53AM

I've just found that something's changed from QuickPDF 7.xx to QuickPDF 8.xx in regards to Chr(160).
It took me some time to figure it out, because I was SURE that DrawTextBox would "eat" multiple-spaces - Chr(32) - in v7.xx, while now it doesn't anymore.

Now it seems that DrawText and DrawTextBox behave exactly the same, so they keep sequences of Chr(32) intact and completely "eat" sequences of Chr(160).

This could be fine for me, but at this point I'm asking that things remain stable in the future, 'cause a year ago I've had to rewrite a lot of functions using DrawTextBox in order to put Chr(160) to maintain text formattation, and now, more by coincidence than other, I've found that I have to rewrite them again in order to restore standard space Chr(32) in place of non-breaking space Chr(160).
Better would be if also Chr(160) would be printed as a space, so I can let the functions as they're now.

This is a code snippet in Delphi to reproduce the problem (missing #160 spaces in PDF).

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  with TQuickPDF.Create do
  try
    UnlockKey(********);
    SetPageDimensions(842, 595);
    SelectFont(AddStandardFont(0));
    SetTextSize(12);
    DrawText(20,550,'HELLO' + #160#160#160#160#160 + 'WORLD    by    DrawText!!!');
    DrawTextBox(20,530,800,20,'HELLO' + #160#160#160#160#160 + 'WORLD    by    DrawTextBox!!!',1);
    SaveToFile('c:\test.pdf');
  finally
    Free;
  end;
end;

Thank you.

Bozzy

P.S. if you'd like to see the PDF created with QuickPDF v7 and v8 let me know where to attach files.

Hi.

Any news here? Can I go and replace Chr(160) with Chr(32) when using the DrawTextBox and DrawText functions? Will it stay as it's behaving now?

Cheers,

Bozzy