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The Dropbox App file display / editor is a welcome tool on mobile devices. However, it displays text files (.txt) in a proportional font. If you are only going to show one font it should be monospaced for text files.
Please change the text editor to use a fixed width font like text editors usually do, or add an option to show text files with a fixed width font.
Text in a txt file (on iphone) is not lining out properly.
In the past, it used to line out just perfectly (like monospaced COURIER lettertype)
Is it possible to have it lined out again?- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hi chrisberkvens - welcome to our Community!
Can you please send me a screenshot of how this looks like on your end? Does this happen for all of your files of the same type?
While at it, can you make sure that you're running the most updated version of your mobile's OS and our app's as well?
Last but not least, please try clearing the cache on your app and then sign out and back into your Dropbox account following these steps:
1. Navigate to the “Personal” tab
2. Tap the gear icon in the upper-left corner of the screen
3. Select “Clear Cache”Once this is done then please make sure you log out of the Dropbox application, then restart your device and log back in again.
Keep me posted on your findings Chris!
Hi Walter,
Thank you for your quick response.
I use version 172.4.4 on my iPhone, it’s the most recent.
I cleared the cache but it stays the same.
All the txt files in my dropbox have the same proportional spacing.I think it is just a choice that Dropbox made on how txt files are shown.
I use dropbox some 5 years now for displaying simple txt files that are updated every 15 minutes.Drobox has had several changes in time on how they display txt files.
3 years ago f.i., there was even a short time (few months) where repeated spaces were shown as just one space.It would be handy if one could choose between monospaced letter type’s and proportional letter type’s. (as a setting)
Kind regards,
Chris Berkvens
- Walter
Ah, I see now; thanks for the clarifications and providing a visual too chrisberkvens!
I've moved your post to the 'Share an Idea' section of our Community again so other users can upvote it if they like.
Let me know if you have any more questions or feedback!
- Lusil
This is not the first time it has been suggested on this forum, so perhaps you could take another step on this and explain what are the development plans to resolve this obvious shortcoming?
- Lusil
+1
I would like to be able to switch back and forwards between the default font and (say) courier new.
Mono space font should be the default - if you have report in text with columns that is dependant upon fixed font spacing , it is virtually impossible to read it properly quickly and it is not the purpose of Dropbox to make our lives easier? Major priority issue in my book.
Mono space font should be the default.
I would also like to see this behavior. Lusil, please make this a higher priority!
Sincerely,
A Paying Customer :-)
- DaphneStatus changed:NewtoGathering Support
This idea is going to need a bit more support.
We've updated the status to encourage more users to back you up!
Thank you for your response, Daphne. Just to clarify, quite often text files contain multiple columns or simple tables. For these cases, a monospaced font is necessary for proper alignment. I have tested a few other cloud-storage apps to see how they handle text files. The Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Adobe Creative Cloud apps all display text files with a monospaced font.
The alignment from line to line that Robert speaks of is exactly why fixed-width font(s) are so useful. Anyone who plays guitar, ukelele, banjo, madolin, etc is familiar with chord charts where the chord on the upper line is directly over the lyric on which it occurs.
IME, .txt files are almoast synonymous with fixed-width fonts (as in Notepad for example) and looks like your competition (Google, Microsoft, Adobe) all agree. When I make a file in Notepad that is in fixed-width (Courier) I expect it to appear that way... as it does in my browser (Chrome) or if I download it and open it in Notepad. It is only in your App that it doesn't.
Perhaps you don't like musicians?
Here's someone else complaining about the same thing on this forum - in a differwent thread.
You say you need more votes, so maybe a perusal of this forum's existing threads is in order?
