[PDFBOX-3890] The operator Tz is not available when creating new PDF using PDPageContentStream

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.7
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.8, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: PDModel
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Jose Novacho
• Created: 09/Aug/17 15:57
• Updated: 02/Nov/17 21:01
• Resolved: 09/Aug/17 17:20

Description

When creating new PDF file using the PDPageContentStream there is no option to set horizontal text spacing. The horizontal text spacing operator (Tz) is implemented in org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.operator.text.SetTextHorizontalScaling but that's not possible to use when creating new PDF.

Minimal working example:

PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
PDPage page = new PDPage();
document.addPage( page );

PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD;
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);

contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont( font, 12 );
contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 100, 700 );
contentStream.drawString( "Hello World" );
contentStream.endText();
contentStream.close();

document.save( "Hello World.pdf");
document.close();

The workaround at this moment is to use PDPageContentStream.appendRawCommands("50 Tz");
But this method is deprecated.