diff --git a/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py b/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py
index be8cde09259..30df7b6211e 100644
--- a/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py
+++ b/bin/report/render/rml2pdf/trml2pdf.py
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ class _rml_canvas(object):
             if n.tag == 'pageNumber':
                 rc += str(self.canvas.getPageNumber())
             rc += utils._process_text(self, n.tail)
-        return rc.replace(' ','').replace('\n','')
+        return rc.replace('\n','')
 
     def _drawString(self, node):
         v = utils.attr_get(node, ['x','y'])