Turn off auto-trimming in NAB Grid PDFs

[TonyDB]

I have a grid widget that I want to make into a PDF.

I've done this by checking the PDF checkbox in the "Configure" section of the grid widget editor.

One of the fields in my grid widget, the "notes" field, is always blank.

It's there because once the PDF is printed out, we want people to use this "notes" field to take notes on a particular row.

I want this "notes" field to take up half of the PDF.

I can't do this because columns with blank values are always shrunken down to a small fraction of the PDF's width.

This auto-trimming takes priority over the width that the user selects for the field in the "PDF Override" section.

Even if I set the "notes" field to a bunch of spaces, the values in each column always have their whitespace trimmed away, which shrinks the values back down to blanks.

Is there a way to disable this auto-trimming of the whitespace?

If not, can we have this feature added?

Otherwise, users can never manually set the size of a blank field in a PDF.

[Johnny Major]

We will look into whether something can be done to force a column width. For now, you can always roll your own PDF from within NAB. Here is a developer diary that goes over it

[TonyDB]

Thank you!