From b7cacdac2e2c738e087bc0f58133f1016d916a46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Heng Sin Low <hengsin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:15:59 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] IDEMPIERE-1763 Table based layout - respect fixed column
 width even when data is null.

---
 .../org/compiere/print/layout/TableElement.java    | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/org.adempiere.base/src/org/compiere/print/layout/TableElement.java b/org.adempiere.base/src/org/compiere/print/layout/TableElement.java
index b50da77b82..97e91d8ee2 100644
--- a/org.adempiere.base/src/org/compiere/print/layout/TableElement.java
+++ b/org.adempiere.base/src/org/compiere/print/layout/TableElement.java
@@ -330,9 +330,17 @@ public class TableElement extends PrintElement
 				Serializable dataItem = m_data.getRowData().get(dataCol);
 				if (dataItem == null)
 				{
-					dimensions.set(dataCol, new Dimension2DImpl());
-					continue;
-				}										
+					//ensure fixed column width respected even when data is null
+					if (m_columnMaxWidth[col] != 0 && m_columnMaxWidth[col] != -1 && m_fixedWidth[col])
+					{
+						dataItem = " ";
+					}
+					else
+					{
+						dimensions.set(dataCol, new Dimension2DImpl());
+						continue;
+					}										
+				}									
 				String string = dataItem.toString();
 				if (string.length() == 0)
 				{