Weird ...
It looks like we've narrowed the issue as coming from Vista 64 bits, using Times new Roman font.
Same app, recompiled on XP works fine; Same app on Vista 64, using Arial font works fine.
Still interested in my question though: what makes WPDF split a text into several pdf fields ?
bit more information : starting from the SAME document template, with merge fields; I did check two different pdfs data coming from 2 different databases.
the one which is fine looks like this
-0.25 Tw -1953 -173 Td(NAME AND ADDRESS OF INSURED)Tj
-0.2 Tw 1953 0 Td(Please DO NOT USE )Tj
-0.5 Tw 0 -111 Td(The Blue House )Tj
0 Tw 0 -111 Td(King Street )Tj
0 -111 Td(West Malling )Tj
0 -111 Td(Kent )Tj
0 -111 Td(ME19 4QT)Tj
the one which does not look fine is
2 Tc -1953 -173 Td(NAME)Tj
0 Tc -4 Tw 294 0 Td( AND)Tj
1 Tw 241 0 Td( ADDRESS)Tj
-9 Tw 481 0 Td( OF)Tj
1 Tw 153 0 Td( INSURED)Tj
-1.2 Tc 0 Tw 784 0 Td(Please)Tj
0 Tc 255 0 Td( DO)Tj
1 Tw 169 0 Td( NOT)Tj
5 Tw 230 0 Td( USE)Tj
0 Tw 214 0 Td( )Tj
25 0 Td( )Tj
9.5 Tc -893 -111 Td(The)Tj
0 Tc 1 Tw 155 0 Td( Blue)Tj
-1.75 Tc -12.5 Tw 214 0 Td( House )Tj
0.33333 Tc 0 Tw -369 -111 Td(King)Tj
-1.35714 Tc -12.5 Tw 200 0 Td( Street )Tj
Notes:
NAME AND ADDRESS OF INSURED is plain text
The Blue House is a merge field in the RTF.
With my limited knowledge of the PDF format, I can see that there are splits which should not occur: so the question is what makes Wpdf split a string in several components or not ?
I upgraded my clients to 3.51 and they have started reporting that spaces are sometimes missing between words. for example the RTF says
"The client is happy" and the PDF will says "The client ishappy". It seems to happen more often after 'is', but this is not constant.
I am using D2007 and have not touched the PDF export in my program, just replaced the dll with the new one.
Any idea ? what can I do to help pinpointing the issue ?
Didier
Edit: I had a call from my users and they say that even reverting to the old WPF DLL does not change anything, they are still having that issue.
