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Subject: fillFormFields() aligment bug + small FIX
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:04:13 -0500
To: <bug-CAM-PDF [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: "Ken Gillett" <ken.gillett [...] wscadc.tzo.com>
I use CAM::PDF to fill out PDF forms quickly using data from a database, and I noticed there were some issues with the alignment when using the fillFormFields() function. The biggest one being it's very limited on which fonts are supported for the alignment (Courier works for example, but not Courier Bold). After some investigating, I've noticed the following changes will help (it's not perfect, but much better in my opinion): . Line #4444, change to o my $border = 1; . Line #4446, change to o my $ty = $border + 1; . Lines #4536-4540 o comment out . Line #4574, change to o my $width = $stringwidth || $self->getStringWidth($fontmetrics, (substr $text, 1, (length $text)-2)); Basically, it fixes the borders a bit and also changes the way the stringwidth is calculated. The stringwidth would calculate the width of the string with the PDF parentheses included. For example, it would calculate the length of (100.00) instead of just 100.00. This caused the center & right alignments to be off. signature
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