Pdfkit: Trying to print outside of margins causes pdfkit to hang (infinite loop)

[mirow]

Example:

doc = new PDFDocument({size: 'A4', margin: 20});
doc.text("29.12.2015", 600, 20);

Pdfkit get stuck in LineWrapper.prototype.eachWord, because this.spaceLeft is negative:

while (w > this.spaceLeft) {
    w = this.wordWidth(word.slice(0, --l));
}

[poupougnac]

I have the same issue. The expected behavior would be to just ignore the command as it would be printed outside the doc.

[ilkkarinne]

Having the same issue. A fix would be apprecited

[derhuerst]

Any news on this? Stumbled upon this bug as well.

[magnatronus]

ditto

[rclai]

Referencing this issue.

[olee]

Is there any work on this being done?
At least a patch that would break the infinite loop and cancel rendering the current text if there is not enough space to render it.
Right not this issue is quite a problem.

[jkoepcke]

As described in #479 - use {lineBreak: false} as a workaround

[jacargentina]

@blikblum I'm getting this too, please can you give me some directive on what solution should be applied and PR/mergable pretty soon?

[blikblum]

There's no PR.

I'll gladly review one

[jacargentina]

@blikblum Here you have.

I think it MAY also solve: #877, #391 and #386 , but i'm not sure as i 've just looked to the issue titles, not the contents.

[JeremyCraigMartinez]

I figured this out (with the help of the guide.pdf on the docs). At the end of writing out the entire PDF, I just looped through the pages and added footers (outside of the margins) (remember to buffer the pages)

  const doc = new PDFDocument({ bufferPages: true });

  ...

  const range = doc.bufferedPageRange();
  for (let i = range.start, end = range.start + range.count; range.start <= end && i < end; i++) {
    doc.switchToPage(i);
    addFooter(doc, i + 1);
  }

[MatthiasGrandl]

@JeremyCraigMartinez I am doing the same thing, but how do you make sure, that text doesn't overflow over the footer?