Mailing Labels - multiline field: agree on left align instead of justify?

[obiuquido144]

I'd like to suggest overriding TCPDF's default text justification for multiline data. IMO it's not good to have mailing labels looking like

Vodafone       Czech     Republic     a.s.,
Events, Promotions, Sponsoring
John Doe
123 Main Street
Prague 1, 110 00

In civicrm\CRM\Utils\PDF\Label.pdf around line 225
we now use

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$this->MultiCell($this->width, $this->lineHeight, $texte, '', 'L');
instead of the original

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$this->MultiCell($this->width, $this->lineHeight, $texte);
which gives us left-aligned mailing labels.

I want to make a bug for this, but would first like to get community agreement/hear possible opinions against this.

Thanks, Boris

Edit: FYI, in newer releases the variable above is '$var' instead of '$texte'.

[Donald Lobo]

hey boris:

how does the label show with your fix?

lobo

[obiuquido144]

Hi, the first line is aligned to the left (i.e. no wide spaces between words):

Vodafone Czech Republic a.s.,
Events, Promotions, Sponsoring
John Doe
123 Main Street
Prague 1, 110 00

[Donald Lobo]

can u file an issue for this and we'll fix in 3.2.3

thanx

lobo

[obiuquido144]

Bug added: http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-6717

Thanks!