Re: Re: Changing fonts on the same line

spinningwebz2002 wrote:
> I have been doing that. I think using advancedwidth will allow me to 
> build a "map" of each line of text and be able to do it. Do you know 
> what information it is looking for in this:
> 
> qw[ font fontsize wordspace charspace hspace]
> 
> Which comes from %textstate when called
> 
> $txt->advancewidth $string [, %textstate]

They are used to calculate the width of the text without making changes 
to the PDF.  Whenever you do a command like `$text->font( $fontobj, 
$fontsize );` a command is added to the PDF to set the font.  If you 
change the font every time you calculate an advancewidth, you end up 
with a lot of set font commands in a row.  This means they a wasted 
effort since only the last one will be effective.


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