Another Error: first word in paragraph doesn't fit into empty line

[bsdsx]

The attached script will generate an error:

!!! Error !!! first word in paragraph for row 1, col 0 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST' doesn't fit into empty line! at /usr/share/perl5/PDF/Table.pm line 1694.

Using a very long word and different fonts causes this error.

The main cause may be found in the PDF/Table.pm, line 678.

If the same word appears multiple times but in different fonts (== differents widths), only the first occurrence is calculated.

pdf_table.txt

[PhilterPaper]

It is a known limitation of PDF::Table that it does not attempt to split (hyphenate) overly long words. Perhaps that can be put in at some point in the future. In the meantime, there are a couple of workarounds:

1. Manually split long words by trial and error until you get a good fit: my $long_word = 'ABCDEFGHI- JKLMNOPQ- RSTUVW- XYZ';
2. Use PDF::Builder instead of PDF::API2, and explicitly use column() functionality: my $long_word = ['none', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', {}]; HTML and Markdown tags are available. Currently, single word lines are split only in "emergency" mode, at the end of the line, and will not properly split at syllables. column() functionality has properly hyphenated words (and eventually, paragraph shaping) in plan, but no schedule yet.

By the way, core fonts can not be used with UTF-8 encoding. That flag will be ignored, since core fonts (actually, any font except for TTF and OTF) must be single-byte encoding.