[PDFBOX-3409] TextToPDF drops leading spaces

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.10, 1.8.12, 1.8.13, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.13, 2.0.3, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Utilities
• Labels: features
• Environment: AIX Version 7
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Marc Stuart
• Created: 01/Jul/16 21:45
• Updated: 23/May/17 14:33
• Resolved: 04/Jul/16 16:47

Description

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 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 (PDFBOX-3410) 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.

Issue Links

• duplicates: PDFBOX-1807 TextToPDF strips leading spaces from input file
• is related to: PDFBOX-3410 TextToPDF needs orientation control