I've been using a monospaced font to render a table onto a graphics object, and to align the columns of text I'd been padding the text using space characters.
I've been asked to change the font to a proportional font, and no surprise, but the columns don't line up anymore.
If given a string such as
"Bill-of-Material Edits\r\n------------------------------\r\n200 510024 Door 24\" x 58\"\r\n 3 530058 Panel 58\" x 58\"\r\n";
how do I ensure that the 3 lines up properly under the one's place on the 200 value from the line above, and subsequently have the 510024 sit directly above the 530058?
Here's the code I use to draw the string:
var fnt = new Font(FontFamily.GenericSansSerif, 10, FontStyle.Regular, GraphicsUnit.Point);
StringFormat strFormat = new StringFormat(StringFormat.GenericTypographic);
strFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Near;
string text = "Bill-of-Material Edits\r\n------------------------------\r\n200 510024 Door 24\" x 58\"\r\n 3 530058 Panel 58\" x 58\"\r\n";
g.DrawString(text, fnt, Brushes.Black, new RectangleF(10f, 10f, 38.1062851f, 12.9231777f), strFormat);
I tried replacing the spaces with other characters such as unicode control characters (0x0080) to no avail. I've also tried using string.Format() with formatters like {0,10} which didn't help either.
What do I do to get my columns to line up?
