> On 30 Mar 2016, at 16:29, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/29/2016 6:25 PM, John Hewson wrote: >> Do you really need to handle that? Changing fonts mid-word is generally not >> a done thing. -- John > John: > > Yes---<i>oh, yes!</i> absolutely <b>required</b>---I'm certain I really need > to handle it. > > My app is a conduit for text created elsewhere. And one of the texts I'm > using as a template for app development has multiple instances of italicized > words followed (or preceded, or both) by hyphen/long dashes followed by > non-italic text with no intervening spaces.
Ah yes, I see. Not a mid-word font change but a font change at punctuation with no spaces in-between. You might want to think about breaking your text into runs of one consistent font/style to avoid bloating the PDF with a text drawing operation for each character. -- John > Jerry > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
