Drawing Courier font text loses spaces

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   Hello,

I'm developing a VB 6.0 printing program using QuickPDF Library 7.24.

When I DrawWrappedText on a page with a standard Courier font and print the page, the page prints the text, but it loses all the spaces between words.  It only leaves one space between each word.

If I draw this text on the page "   1HI          CROYDON         , PA 19021-6997", it prints as    "1HI CROYDON , PA 19021-6997".

Does anybody know how to print text on a page as it is including the space characters?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,
Tony

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Carneno Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 19 Apr 11 Status: Offline Points: 24	Post Options Post Reply Quote Carneno Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Drawing Courier font text loses spaces Posted: 25 Apr 11 at 5:32PM
	Hello, I'm developing a VB 6.0 printing program using QuickPDF Library 7.24. When I DrawWrappedText on a page with a standard Courier font and print the page, the page prints the text, but it loses all the spaces between words. It only leaves one space between each word. If I draw this text on the page " 1HI CROYDON , PA 19021-6997", it prints as "1HI CROYDON , PA 19021-6997". Does anybody know how to print text on a page as it is including the space characters? Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks, Tony
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Rowan Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 10 Jan 09 Status: Offline Points: 398	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rowan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Apr 11 at 10:07PM
	Hi Tony, Extra spaces between words in strings are ignored. If you need to include multiple spaces in your strings then you will need to use the draw HTML text functions (for example DrawHTMLTextBox) and use the HTML space tags (e.g.  ). Alternatively there is the DrawSpacedText function but it's not possible to selectively use extra spaces with this option. Cheers, - Rowan.

Carneno Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 19 Apr 11 Status: Offline Points: 24	Post Options Post Reply Quote Carneno Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Apr 11 at 10:51PM
	Hello Rowan. Thanks again for helping on yet another issue. I don't think the DrawHTMLTextBox will help. I would have to count the spaces between words and then fill those spaces with the &nbsp tags. This text is spaced out the way it is so that it overlays a preprinted form without printing over the preprinted areas. I did try the DrawSpacedText and that did not work. Thanks, Tony
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