Hi Gerrit, which version of PDFBox are you using? Could you post a small code snippet to reproduce the issue? With a quick test I created the numbers do print fine i.e. they have the same width.
Her my code: PDDocument doc = new PDDocument(); PDPage page = new PDPage(); doc.addPage( page ); PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA; PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page); contentStream.beginText(); contentStream.setFont( font, 12 ); contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 100, 700 ); contentStream.drawString( "1111 " + font.getStringWidth("1111")); contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 0, 20 ); contentStream.drawString( "2222 " + font.getStringWidth("2222")); contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 0, 20 ); contentStream.drawString( "12 " + font.getStringWidth("12")); contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 0, 20 ); contentStream.drawString( "32 " + font.getStringWidth("32")); contentStream.endText(); contentStream.close(); doc.save( "test.pdf" ); Kind regards Maruan Sahyoun Am 05.12.2012 um 14:49 schrieb Gerrit Lober <gerritlo...@gmx.de>: > Dear all, > > I've the following problem with PDFbox. I try to paint a rectangle with > PDPageContentStream and then put a figure in the center of this rectangle. > > Therefore I try to calculate the width of the text. The Method getStringWidth > returns everytime the same width for all figures. That means that I get the > same result for "12" and "32". Because the "1" is smaller than the "3" > something is not correct and my "12" is a bit to right. > > What is the reason for this? > > I get the Font with the following code: > private PDFont getFont() throws IOException { > return PDType1Font.HELVETICA; > } > > Thanks! >