Why are all the amounts values negative?
A few days ago I got this email from a customer. Something about all the amounts coming out as negative. I converted their PDF.
PDF Sample Converted Sample The customer was right, all amounts were coming through as negative. Pretty weird. Interestingly the column headers end with minus sign characters. I then opened up the PDF in PDFSnake to see how the text is encoded. Let's look at how the values "$110.
PDF Sample Converted Sample The customer was right, all amounts were coming through as negative. Pretty weird. Interestingly the column headers end with minus sign characters. I then opened up the PDF in PDFSnake to see how the text is encoded. Let's look at how the values "$110.
Summary
A customer reported that all amounts in their PDF were appearing as negative values. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the column headers contained trailing minus signs, leading to the confusion.
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