LineSpacing and newlines

[Shaun]

Hi,

I am struggling to alter the linespacing on the telerik.windows.documents.fixed.model.Editing.Block. I use the following line of code;

textBlock1.LineSpacing = 10

However this doesn't seem to have any effect. Nothing crashes and there is no problems running the code. If I break at this line the value is never set. I can use the Visual Studio debugger to set the value and it works perfectly. Any ideas?

Secondly when using multiline text from a database the block doesn't seem to respect newlines. I have to use the following code which seems a bit excessive.
 

01.Private Sub InsertText(textBlock As Editing.Block, descriptionText As String)
02.           Dim ascii() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(descriptionText)
03.           For i As Integer = 0 To descriptionText.Length - 1
04.               If ascii(i) = 13 Then
05.                   textBlock.InsertLineBreak()
06.               Else
07.                   textBlock.InsertText(descriptionText(i))
08.               End If
09.           Next
10.       End Sub

Any help would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Shaun

[Shaun]

Please ignore the first part of this question. When continuing on with other parts of this document the line spacing has started to work. Unfortunately I am not sure when this was.  

[Kammen]

Hi Shaun,

Thank you for the interest in RadPdfProcessing.

1. LineSpacing does not work correctly. For the official release at the end of the month we will redesign its behavior. The line spacing will work the same way as in RadWordsProcessing - 3 different states AtLeast, Exact and Auto that will affect the line spacing differently.

2. Currently the Block element does not break multiline text on lines. We will consider this feature request and maybe we will implement it for one of the future releases.

Hope this answers your questions.

Regards,
Kammen
Telerik

 

 

[René]

Since 5 and a half years later newlines are still ignored here a workaround in C#:

private void InsertTextWithNewlines(Block block, string text)
{
    string[] lines = text.Split(new[] {"\r\n", "\r", "\n"}, StringSplitOptions.None);

    for (int i = 0; i < lines.Length; i++)
    {
       block.InsertText(lines[i]);
       if (i < lines.Length - 1)
       {
          block.InsertLineBreak();
       }
    }
}

[Dimitar]

Hi Rene,

Yes, unfortunately, this is still not implemented.

Thank you for sharing your solution. I can see that you have added a feature request for this on our portal. I want to share the link here as well so others can see it add their votes/comments to the item: Block.InsertText should not ignore newlines.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have other questions.

Regards,
Dimitar
Progress Telerik