[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-1709) processEncodedText gives x-coord short by width of previous text, for next text at same y-coord.

["Robert Simms (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Robert Simms created PDFBOX-1709:
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             Summary: processEncodedText gives x-coord short by width of previous text, for next text at same y-coord.
                 Key: PDFBOX-1709
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1709
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: PDModel
    Affects Versions: 1.8.2
         Environment: Windows 7 sp1, Javac 1.6.0_30, Java 1.7.0_17
            Reporter: Robert Simms


Use this PostScript to create PDFs that demonstrate x-coordinate issue with processEncodedText().

%!
/Helvetica findfont 20 scalefont setfont

100 72 moveto
(Hello) show

% CASES
%    Uncomment any one of the following, make a PDF (with ghostscript ps2pdf, or acrobat distiller),
%    then process the PDF with java implementation of PDFBox PDFTextStripper.
%    listing text and x,y positions obtained by overriding the processEncodedText() method.
%    For example, the x-coord. of a text item may be printed in that method with
%       System.out.format("%.2f\n", this.getTextMatrix().getXPosition());

% % 0. Works to convince processEncodedText that string 'Hello world.' was at 100,72.  This is good.
%
% ( world.) show

% % 1. Does not trick processEncodedText into thinking 'Hello' followed by ' ' + 'world.'
% %    Instead,
% %    x-coord. of 'world.' reported as being actual position minus width of 'Hello', plus width of ' '
% %    which is x=105.56 in this case.
% 
%( ) stringwidth pop 0 rmoveto
%(world.) show

% % 2. Positioning 'world.' within about 500 points from 'Hello', at same vertical position causes
% %    processEncodedText to give
% %    x-coord. of 'world.' as actual position minus width of 'Hello'
% %    which is x=200 in this case.
%
%100 0 rmoveto
%(world.) show


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