Problem in implementing Word wrapping in a pdf.

Abhishek Gaddam over 6 years ago

Hello All,

I am having issues to print the input in the paragraph field in a text box for printing PDF purposes .Adobe doesn't recognize the line breaks and hence is printing the whole string in a single line.Does anyone had this issue and found a solution.

regards,

Abhishek gaddam.

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0 Rama Thummala
Certified Lead Developer
over 6 years ago

Abhishek Gaddam , As part of similar requirement , we have used PDF from XSLFO smart service. While defining .xsl , I have added line breaks by inserting null characters (with xsl code). Hope this would help you..!
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0 Mike Schmitt
Certified Lead Developer
over 6 years ago

As far as I know, Appian stores input line breaks as LF (char10) only, but many protocols still require CR&LF (char13 & char10) to print a line break correctly. I'm not sure if this will work in a PDF but it should be quick and easy to try -- simply replace all instances of char(10) in your string with char(13)&char(10).
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0 Raj
Certified Senior Developer
over 6 years ago

There are different solutions to this. Have you tried creating a HTML or Word document using template and then converting that to a PDF? Provide a description of your use case.
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0 Abhishek Gaddam over 6 years ago in reply to Raj

The use case is as follows : User enters the feedback in the paragraph field of the screen we designed . At any point of time he can modify the his feedback and then reprint it.The print appears to be in one long line of text when printed as a PDF.
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0 Abhishek Gaddam over 6 years ago in reply to Mike Schmitt

i tried substitute(ri!feedback,char(10),char(10)&char(13)) where ri!feedback ( length is 1000 char's ) is the string we are printing.But its behaving similarly.The problem still exists.
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0 Rama Thummala
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over 6 years ago in reply to Abhishek Gaddam

Abhishek Gaddam , What smart service you are using to generate pdf? I would suggest to use PDF from XSLFO smart service, as we can do manipulation of data received by using xsl code before generating pdf document by using this.
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0 Abhishek Gaddam over 6 years ago in reply to Rama Thummala

Ramanjaneyulu T, Thank you for the suggestions .We are using fill PDF smart service and it is being used in many processes as printing pdf's is one of the prominent feature of our application.Changing fill PDF to XSLFO smart service would be a time consuming and also a risky move, as I don't have a prior knowledge regarding the XSLFO. Better way would be to see if fill pdf smart service can do the manipulation of data as XSLFO smart service.Please let me know your thoughts.
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0 Arpit Bhargava over 6 years ago

Abhishek
Are you using the pdf template?
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0 Abhishek Gaddam over 6 years ago in reply to Arpit Bhargava

Yes arpitb , I am using a template .
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