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FPDF cell places text somewhere

I have read already a lot of cases here but nothing of the suggested solutions worked for me so therefore I am asking for some hints/help. I use FPDI/FPDF with a method to place text in cells, in short it is:

public function placeTextCell($font, $fontSize, $x, $y, $red, $green, $blue, $text, $align) {
        $this->pdf->SetFont($font, '', $fontSize);
        $this->pdf->SetTextColor($red, $green, $blue);
        $this->pdf->SetXY($x,$y);
        $this->pdf->Cell(0,8,$text,0,0,$align);
    }

I am calling this method several times like:

$this->placeTextCell('crazy-font',8,5,30,255,255,255,'the text','R');
$this->placeTextCell('crazy-font',8,5,35,255,255,255,'the text','R');
$this->placeTextCell('crazy-font',8,5,40,255,255,255,'the text','R');
.... same with different 'y' coordinate

The problem is, that it works nearly for all cells, some cells are dislocated like:

             the text
             the text
        the text
    the text
             the text

I played around with calling Ln() but it doesn't do anything. I really have no clue at them moment. Does anybody have an idea why this happens?

Solution

  • Solved, trim did it. Funny thing, all strings were trimmed before so I'm wondering where the whitespaces come from...