[xep-support] Re: Encoding spaces at line ends and between words

[Armin Günther]

As an addition to my previous post: Perhaps this mostly is not a XEP/PDF 
problem but a problem of the respective PDF-viewer?

- Armin


> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to control how spaces at line ends and between words 
> with different styles are encoded into PDF? There seems to be no space 
> encoded at line ends and between words with different styles (e.g. 
> bold/italics/normal). When we use PDF annotation tools on our PDFs 
> generated by XEP (or simply want to copy text from PDFs generated by 
> XEP) words/lines are concatenated as in the following example taken 
> from a RenderX demo document 
> (http://www.renderx.com/files/demos/examples/CH11.pdf):
>
> Gender, in contrast, is a *social,not* a biological characteristic. 
> *Genderconsists* of *what-ever* behaviors and attitudes a group 
> considers proper for its males and females. *Conse-quently*, gender 
> varies from one society to another. Whereas *sexrefers* to male or 
> *female,genderrefers* to masculinity or femininity. In short, you 
> inherit your sex, but you *learnyour* gender as you are socialized 
> into the behaviors and attitudes your culture asserts *areappropriate* 
> for your sex.
> *Text copied from http://www.renderx.com/files/demos/examples/CH11.pdf 
> with *missing spaces*
>
> Is there a way to have real spaces encoded and not just positioning of 
> text in PDFs here? The result should look like this text:
>
> Gender, in contrast, is a *social, not* a biological characteristic. 
> *Gender consists* of *what- ever* behaviors and attitudes a group 
> considers proper for its males and females. *Conse- quently*, gender 
> varies from one society to another. Whereas *sex refers* to male or 
> *female, gender refers* to masculinity or femininity. In short, you 
> inherit your sex, but you *learn your* gender as you are socialized 
> into the behaviors and attitudes your culture asserts *are 
> appropriate* for your sex.
>
> Thanks!
> Armin
>
>