Display long Text in PDF (How to match width of text in TextEdit & Form)
Hello Experts,
I have created a PDF where I have to populate a field with Long Text (from a Text Edit UI Element of my Web Dynpro Component). The issue is that when I retrieve the text (using READ_TEXT...) and display it, it occupies just the half of screen width.
I increased the number of columns of the Text Edit with `Hard Wrap`/`Soft Wrap`, but it had no effect. I also tried setting the width of the Text Edit but it had no effect too.
Could you kindly suggest any way of achieving this?
Thanks and best regards,
Abir
Hi Abir
When you use FM READ_TEXT to get the Longtext, you have to somehow serialize the textlines into a single longtext (string). You do it like this?
LOOP AT tline into ls_tline.
CONCATENATE l_string ls_tline-tline INTO l_string.
ENDLOOP:
I think these line breaks are caused by CRLF (end-of-line) characters inside your longtext. You can find and replace them with the constant CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>CR_LF.
Edited by: Daniel Sulzer on Nov 23, 2010 2:43 PM
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