Newline in FormattedTextArea

Our customer has a wish to create "soft" newlines in a formattedtextarea. Consider the following two samples of HTML that *should* yield different PDF output, but yields the same PDF output:

1.
<p>Some text<br />with a soft linebreak</p>

2.
<p>Some text</p><p>with a hard linebreak</p>

These two HTML samples yield the exact same PDF output using FormattedTextArea. How is it possible to just add a linebreak in example 1, instead of a new paragraph?

Hello,

Are you trying to add the indent to the paragraph? If so you will have to set indent to the paragraph using the Indent property of the Paragraph class. By default the indent will be set to zero and this is the reason you are seeing the same behavior for both of your examples. Below is the code to set indent for the paragraph.

        FormattedTextAreaStyle style = new FormattedTextAreaStyle(FontFamily.Helvetica, 14, true);
            string text="<p>Some text <br />with a soft linebreak </p>" ;
            FormattedTextArea area = new FormattedTextArea(text, 10, 150, 200, 100, style);
           
        string formattedText = "<p>Some text to check the paragraph</p><p>with a hard linebreak with HTML br tag and this should be added with some indent</p> ";
            FormattedTextArea formattedTextArea = new FormattedTextArea(formattedText, 10, 10, 200, 100, FontFamily.Helvetica, 14, true);
            formattedTextArea.Style.Paragraph.Indent = 20;
           
            Document document = new Document();
            Page page = new Page();
            page.Elements.Add(formattedTextArea);
            page.Elements.Add(area);
            document.Pages.Add(page);
            document.Draw(@"C:\Temp\Test.pdf");

Thanks,
ceTe Software Team.

I do not wish to indent the text. I want the first example to look like this in the PDF:

[begin]
Some text
with a soft linebreak
[end]

And the second example to look like this:

[begin]
Some text

with a hard linebreak
[end]

(The PDF rendering code should be equal for both cases)

Hello,

You can use the SpacingAfter property of the paragraph style class to set the desired spacing btween the paragraphs using our DynamicPDF Generator API. Below is the code for it.

            FormattedTextAreaStyle style = new FormattedTextAreaStyle(FontFamily.Helvetica, 14, true);
            string text = "<p>Some text <br />with a soft linebreak </p>";
            FormattedTextArea area = new FormattedTextArea(text, 10, 10, 200, 100, style);

            string formattedText = "<p>Some text </p><p>with a hard linebreak </p> ";
            FormattedTextArea formattedTextArea = new FormattedTextArea(formattedText, 10, 150, 200, 100, FontFamily.Helvetica, 14, true);
            formattedTextArea.Style.Paragraph.SpacingAfter = 10;

            Document document = new Document();
            Page page = new Page();
            page.Elements.Add(area);
            page.Elements.Add(formattedTextArea);
            document.Pages.Add(page);
            document.Draw(@"C:\Temp\Test.pdf");

Thanks,
ceTe Software Support Team.

Tried using the SpacingAfter property, but that affects both the soft linebreaks and the hard linebreaks. I get hard linebreaks for both <p> and <br/> with indent = 0, spacingafter = 12, spacingbefore = 0

To clarify, I want this in the SAME FormattedTextArea object. Not different FormattedTextArea objects. As stated earlier "same code" for both cases.

/Peter

Hello Peter,

Can you please let us know what build of our DynamicPDF product you are using? Also please send over the sample code which you are using and output PDF document to our support team at: support@cete.com so that they can look into it further.

Thanks,
ceTe Software Support Team.

Resolved with new version of the ceTe assembly!

One small addition query how can we add a line (not line break just a simple line to the formattedtext

Hello,

Can you please send over more details about your requirements and also tell us what you are trying to achieve using our DynamicPDF product to our support team at: support@cete.com so that they can look into it further?

Thanks,
ceTe Software Support Team.

Hello,

If anyone is having the same issue with v5, please send an email to support@cete.com referring to the URL of this post so we can send you the latest build that fixes the issue. 

Thanks,
ceTe Software Support Team.