Hello,

Amazed by this extension and how it was fulfilling our needs, we bought it for our author community.

However, there is a problem with HTML spaces rendering. Indeed, in J! there's sometimes usual spaces and those ones :
But they are rendered as squares in final pdf file :


Can you please advise how to bypass this ?
I'm even willing to hack it myself if code is provided.

One point though : we have lots of articles and CANNOT take the bet to edit each of them to remove those kind of HTML spaces.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Hello.

Yes I am a client though I'm not the one who bought the extension but another member of the community I administrate.

Website is http://www.les-chroniques.eg2.fr

Hi Erik,

I sent you through PM requested intells.

Hi Erik,

Indeed, I downloaded this new version and HTML spaces are now fine !
Thanks for this quick update !!!

However (there's always a 'however' ) I still have some squares for other kinds of spaces. Let me take an example.
( I do know you may not speak french, but spaces aren't languages specific, are they ? )

Here we go with the rendered ebook picture :

As one can see, all HTML spaces are now fine. Still remains stacks of 2 squares sometimes.
Checking Joomla! article :

Spaces seem normal.
Checking Joomla! HTML source :

So it seems that in the source, those "common" spaces are rendered as normal line breaks but not HTML.

Checking deeper other articles, all of them are of the same kind (from multiple authors, web browsers, word editors, etc...). Maybe it is coming from DB storage or copy/paste reception. Anyway render is fine in Joomla! Back-end and Front-end, not in Ebooks.
Moreover, what I don't understand is why none else figured this out.

Can your component translate those line breaks as usual spaces ?

Thank you again for your support in advance.
Nice day to you.

Well, how can I find this character id ?!

In the DB it is also a line break ie. something I cannot select and know what it is. In the .pdf file it is also something I cannot select though it is visible.

I would just need some tip to provide you what you need.

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

In the meantime, I took Foxit pdf editor and selected some line with those squares.
With text properties it came out that squares were <000D><000A> and had to be replaced by <0020>.
Dunno if that's useful for you.

Anyway if you know how to change some hex characters to other characters, wouldn't it be interresting to convert all squares unicode characters (from 0000 to 000F) to space unicode characters (0020) ?

Note that I'm only suggesting and surely ain't properly aware of many stuff to discuss that. Please forgive any stupid idea I may have proposed !

If you mean by "Clean up the code" use the yellow brush of J! editor... just forget it, it doesn't change anything at all.

And for codes I provided, you may refer to Unicode character map (which can be translated to hex). There you can see that range I proposed (from 0000 to 000F) is only composed of squares. Anyway, if you could only translate the 2 upper mentioned (000D & 000A) to spaces (0020) it would do the trick.

If you don't want to, for interaction reasons with other customer (which I would understand), could you at least let me know how to do it on my side ? (I guess this is related to some preg_match function or some approaching)

Thanks & regards

You must edit the eBookPdf.class.php file, found in the [Joomla dir]/administrator/components/com_ebooks/ folder.

Find the parseHtml function (line 287).

Add your replacements just after the line 297. Line 297 fixes the &nbsp ; issue.