Michael Olenick wrote:
> I don't know about others but I hesitated and did a week of testing
> before thinking about wasting Bruno's time when I found a bug in the
> tab-chunk mechanism.  I verified the bug (tab chunks behave
> erratically with justified text) with many fonts, many tab chunk
> sizes, many text samples, with and without characters.  Bruno decided
> not to fix the because the complexity of the fix outweighed the
> benefit to most, and there are workarounds, a decision I understand
> and respect.

After thinking it over, I made a small change. See the iText version in 
the SVN repository. Whenever there's a Tab Chunk in a PdfLine, the text 
isn't justified to the right. This doesn't "solve" the bug, but at least 
the line doesn't exceed the margin anymore. (It's less of a problem if 
there's some extra white space on the right then when the text jumps out 
of the margins.)

> But -- and this is what I'm getting at -- I uploaded a clean, clear,
> concise code sample and a PDF illustrating the bug and spent a lot of
> time verifying it wasn't my system and could be reproduced.

That sample was much appreciated.

After the first test, it was a "won't fix" situation. But afterwards, I 
did a second test, and now there's an "almost fixed" situation. The code 
sample you've made hasn't been thrown away yet. Maybe I'll find a way to 
make a "working fix" ;-)

best regards,
Bruno

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