[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-3409) TextToPDF drops leading spaces

["Marc Stuart (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Marc Stuart created PDFBOX-3409:
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             Summary: TextToPDF drops leading spaces
                 Key: PDFBOX-3409
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3409
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Rendering
    Affects Versions: 1.8.10
         Environment: AIX Version 7
            Reporter: Marc Stuart
             Fix For: 1.8.10


We want to use TextToPDF in batch command line mode to convert legacy reports which assume a mono-spaced font, but the PDF files created ignore all leading spaces.  Obviously, this messes up column alignment.  We can't use the tool without a fix for this.  Or is there a parameter we can pass?  Here is the command line we are using:  java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar TextToPDF -standardFont Courier -fontSize 6 gprod.pdf gprod.txt.  I don't see how to attach files here, but I will if I can do it after creating the ticket.  I tried downloading 2.0.2, but it is stuck at "WARNING: Building on-disk font cache, this may take a while".  P.S.  I am also submitting a second ticket regarding the need for orientation control in TextToPDF.  Most of our old legacy reports are 128 characters wide and without a Landscape option, they come out wrapped into illegibility.




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