Integrated: 8367867: [macosx] Ignorable whitespace in text not removed when printing
Daniel Gredler
dgredler at openjdk.org
Thu Sep 25 10:11:43 UTC 2025
On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:28:57 GMT, Daniel Gredler <dgredler at openjdk.org> wrote:
> When text is printed (or drawn to screen), some whitespace characters like new lines should be ignored (see `FontUtilities.isIgnorableWhitespace(int)`). This is currently not being done when printing on macOS, and is one (of about half a dozen) reasons why `java/awt/print/PrinterJob/PrintTextTest.java` is currently problem listed on macOS. Fixing this bug will get us one step closer to removing this test from the problem list.
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> Within `PrintTextTest`, this issue can be seen specifically with the extra space before and after "drawChars(" on every page of the printed document. This whitespace should not be present.
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> This change aligns behavior with printing on other platforms (see `RasterPrinterJob.removeControlChars(String)`) and with screen display on macOS (see `CCharToGlyphMapper`) and other platforms.
This pull request has now been integrated.
Changeset: 2407eb05
Author: Daniel Gredler <dgredler at openjdk.org>
URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/2407eb0522d192135a6bed52e88be5a59cba8f6c
Stats: 34 lines in 4 files changed: 16 ins; 8 del; 10 mod
8367867: [macosx] Ignorable whitespace in text not removed when printing
Reviewed-by: prr, serb
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27345
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