Problem when justifying text in a <p> tag that contains another tag (b,u, i...)

[Taoufiq-El]

It seems that when align="justify" is applied to text in the

tag that contains another tag (b,u, i...), the resulting text is divided by a line break.

from fpdf import FPDF, HTMLMixin

class PDF(FPDF, HTMLMixin):
    def header(self):
        self.set_font('Arial', 'B', 12)
        self.cell(0, 10, 'My PDF Document', 0, 1, 'C')

    def footer(self):
        self.set_y(-15)
        self.set_font('Arial', 'I', 8)
        self.cell(0, 10, 'Page %s' % self.page_no(), 0, 0, 'C')

pdf = PDF()
pdf.add_page()

html_content = """
<p align="justify">This is a sample text that will be justified in the PDF. <u>This</u> is a sample text that will be justified in the PDF. This is a sample text that will be justified in the PDF. This is a sample text that will be justified in the PDF.</p>
"""

pdf.write_html(html_content)

pdf.output('output.pdf')```

[gmischler]

Hi @Taoufiq-El,

thank you for reporting this.
You're not the first one to notice the problem. Issue #640 is essentially about the same thing.

I'm currently working on PR #897, which will hopefully fix it. Unfortunately I can't tell yet when it will be ready to merged, since it involves some nontrivial new functionality.

[Taoufiq-El]

Hi @gmischler

Thank you for your message,

I will see what can I do from side !

[Lucas-C]

By the way, HTMLMixin is deprecated and not more need 🙂

If you enable deprecation warnings you will get a notice about this:
https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#displaying-deprecation-warnings

[gmischler]

@Taoufiq-El, I've just checked in #897, which should solve the problem (as long as it doesn't happen within a table).

You can install the currently unreleased code (about to be released as 2.7.6 very soon) like this:

pip install git+https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2.git@master

and test it in your environment.

Edit: Published with release 2.7.6