Question

Generate PDF document removes BR tags from rich text

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When I generate a PDF document from data entered in the Bootstrap Wysiwyg Editor, any blank lines (BR tags) in the text are removed while it is exported to PDF. I can only choose to render an attribute as XHTML, I see no further options. How can I prevent the blank lines from being removed from the text?

asked 2014-05-08

Marcel Groeneweg (Synobsys)

2 answers

Sebastiaan van den Broek · Answer 1 · 2014-05-08

It surprises me that the BR tags are actually removed, I would just expect to see them as plain text. HTML is just one of the many forms of markup, normally the text should just be represented 'as is'.

If you want to export XHTML then that's what the dynamic label option is for :)

Marcel Groeneweg (Synobsys) · Answer 2 · 2014-05-21

I tried adding custom styling to p tags, but that did not work. The transformation adds space-after="1em" space-before="1em" to the style attribute of the <fo:block element. What do I have to specify to prevent that, or set the spacing to zero or none?