I’ve added a Text object that start with whitespaces to the Paragraph object,
but the whitespace of paragraph is removed in iText7(7.0.4).
It looks like left trim. Is this a specification of Paragraph?
Is there any way to keep whitespaces before text?
Paragraph p = new Paragraph().add(new Text(" abc")); // Only "abc" appears in pdf
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Answer
iText will trim spaces.
But it will not remove non-breaking spaces.
File outputFile = new File(System.getProperty("user.home"), "output.pdf"); PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(outputFile)); Document layoutDocument = new Document(pdfDocument); layoutDocument.add(new Paragraph("u00A0u00A0u00A0Lorem Ipsum")); layoutDocument.add(new Paragraph("Lorem Ipsum")); layoutDocument.close();