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Core Layout: Text in PDF does not wrap appropriately (Text elements inside Paragraph) 


Background 

In release 7.2.5 of the iText Core library we’ve introduced a fix in relation to how word wrapping is handled.  

In borderline cases, for example when text elements contained in a Paragraph have a single character space at the beginning or end of lines, older versions of iText would fail to break/wrap appropriately.  

Example Code: 

As a highlighted example, below is a snippet of iText code to create a simple Text element contained in a Paragraph. 
 

 

In older versions, the code above would fail to wrap the line properly: 

 
 

 


However, in version 7.2.5 the above behaviour has been fixed and the line is now wrapped correctly: 

 

 


 

Resources: 

textWrapping.zip

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