[Koha-bugs] [Bug 14894] Labels: allow empty lines in PDF export

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14894

--- Comment #4 from Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger at foundations.edu> ---
(In reply to Theodoros Theodoropoulos from comment #3)

> An alternative idea (that does not involve changes to the layout screen)
> would be to strip empty lines -by default- when these are results of MARC
> fields -as you do now-, but display them when they are simple text (in
> single quotes)...

As I recall the problem was that imported MARC records tend to have various
fields which include spaces/non-print chars but no data for whatever reason
(probably due to sloppy data entry or messed up MARC editors, etc.). It was not
readily obvious that empty fields contained spaces, etc., so the easiest
approach was to strip all blank fields when creating labels. This is the first
time I recall it being a problem, however, I think that adding a switch for
this to the layout screen is a very good approach to resolving it.

It should be fairly straightforward to do this. Personally, I cannot commit to
doing it any time soon, but perhaps someone else might be able to.

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