[PDFBOX-3410] TextToPDF needs orientation control

• Type: New Feature
• 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 22:09
• Updated: 25/Mar/17 18:12
• 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 most of our old legacy reports are 128 characters wide and without a Landscape option, they come out wrapped into illegibility. Using a Courier 6 font just barely keeps them from wrapping, but it messes up the pagination. Please note that this ticket relates to PDFBOX-3409, where leading spaces are lost, which is even more of a deal-breaker for us than this. A Courier 10 example is attached. See ticket PDFBOX-3409 for a Courier 6 example.

Issue Links

• relates to: PDFBOX-3409 TextToPDF drops leading spaces