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Topic: Spaces in DrawTextBox not displayed in pdf

Posted By: stakon
Subject: Spaces in DrawTextBox not displayed in pdf
Date Posted: 07 Dec 09 at 9:41AM

Good day,

I have noticed that when writing in a pdf file using DrawTextBox . any spaces in the string provided are truncated.
For example when calling: DrawTextBox(left,top,width,height,"4 spaces 10 spaces: end",0);
what is really in th pdf is: 4 spaces 10 spaces: end

Btw when using DrawText, the above problem does not appear.

Thanx in advance,

stakon

Replies:

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 07 Dec 09 at 9:59AM

Hi Stakon!

It's not a bug - It's a feature ;-)
The developers had thought that it makes more sense to remove the spaces while using textboxes.
But you has already seen how to avoid this behavior (using DrawText)...
BTW: Is it the same if you're using Chr(32) instead of real space?

Cheers, Ingo

Posted By: stakon
Date Posted: 07 Dec 09 at 10:56AM

Hi Ingo,

I guess then that it is a buggy feature :p
A more useful implementation would be to set the truncating on/off in the options parameter...
I also tried your idea by providing ("%c",32) but it was just the same.
By using DrawText i lose much of the DrawTextBox convenience...

How can i make a request, so that this "fetaure" becomes friendlier?

stakon.

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 07 Dec 09 at 12:35PM

Hi!

In the general section i've posted soemthing for this case "the first step...".

Cheers, Ingo

Posted By: JanN
Date Posted: 08 Dec 09 at 2:19PM

http://quickpdf.org/forum/adding-spaces-to-text-field_topic1271_post5839.html

Posted By: Rowan
Date Posted: 11 Dec 09 at 6:12AM

Ingo is right, it's by design.

The DrawTextBox function splits the text into words to do the wrapping and when it puts the words back together again it just adds a single space. Using Chr(160) should fix the problem as it is a non-breaking space. For the DrawHTMLText function the   entity can be used.

Cheers,

- Rowan.

Posted By: stakon
Date Posted: 11 Dec 09 at 7:44AM

Chr(160) works fine.

Thanx to all!