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[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-2843) widthOfSpace() appears wrong in TextPosition

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Andreas Lehmkühler commented on PDFBOX-2843:
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The width of a character depends on the used font. Please, attach a sample pdf demonstrating the described effect.

BTW, you should update to 1.8.9

> widthOfSpace() appears wrong in TextPosition
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-2843
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2843
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>         Environment: JDK 8 on Windows 7
>            Reporter: Richard Wolfgram
>
> When using the following override method of PDFTextStripper I am getting a large difference in values for TextPosition.getWidthOfSpace() between version 1.8.6 and pdfbox-2.0.0-20150611.100833-1423
> @Override
>  protected void processTextPosition(TextPosition textPos)
>  {
>     float spaceWidth = textPos.getWidthOfSpace();
>     float width = textPos.getWidth();
>     System.out.println(textPos.getCharacter() + " - Width of Space=" + spaceWidth + " - width=" + width);
>     builder.append(textPos.getCharacter());
>  }
> In 1.8.6 average character width is around 5 and space width is around 2.5
> In 2.0 average character width is around 5 and space width is around 27



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