| BIRT adds in spaces when rendering a PDF [message #1766907] |
Wed, 28 June 2017 16:44 |
 Murray Fenstermaker
Messages: 1
Registered: June 2017 |
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Hello, I've been tearing my hair out about this seemingly minor issue but the perfectionist in me won't let the formatting stand.
Some background:
I am restricted to a single text item data source since I am interfacing with other services. I have split this data into a dictionary using some loops and assigned this dictionary to an accessible variable. Each cell outputs a specific string from the dictionary and my template generates everything I need. It seems to work great except for one odd hitch, when I use a multiline string it generates whitespace at the start of any line after the first but only when I export it to PDF, not HTML. So for example:
String:
"123 Fake st. <br/>Baltimore, MD<br/>21231"
HTML:
123 Fake st.
Baltimore, MD
21231
PDF:
123 Fake st.
Baltimore, MD
21231
I ran some code using regex to strip whitespace out of the string but it still left those leading spaces in. I then decided I would compensate for the spaces by giving the first line a space so it would appear to be in perfect alignment. However upon using a the first line manifested two spaces rather than one so I ended up with:
123 Fake st.
Baltimore, MD
21231
I have tested margins and padding and they are not the cause so far as I can tell. The whitespace is selectable. This is baffling to me and project requirements dictate that this needs to be correct and it needs to be directly generated as a PDF, so I am unsure how to proceed. One other baffling part of this is that I ran the PDF through. I was wondering if anyone else has encountered an error like this and has any insight.
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