Spaces in DrawTextBox not displayed in pdf

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stakon Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 09 Oct 09 Status: Offline Points: 22	Post Options Post Reply Quote stakon Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Spaces in DrawTextBox not displayed in pdf 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

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply 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

stakon Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 09 Oct 09 Status: Offline Points: 22	Post Options Post Reply Quote stakon Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply 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.

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3530	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 Dec 09 at 12:35PM
	Hi! In the general section i've posted soemthing for this case "the first step...". Cheers, Ingo

JanN Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 29 Oct 05 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 116	Post Options Post Reply Quote JanN Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 Dec 09 at 2:19PM
	http://quickpdf.org/forum/adding-spaces-to-text-field_topic1271_post5839.html

Rowan Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 10 Jan 09 Status: Offline Points: 398	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rowan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply 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. Edited by Rowan - 11 Dec 09 at 6:13AM

stakon Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 09 Oct 09 Status: Offline Points: 22	Post Options Post Reply Quote stakon Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11 Dec 09 at 7:44AM
	Chr(160) works fine. Thanx to all!

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