PLPDF

I'm trying to create bold and normal text in the same paragraph with the library PL/PDF, but I can't. This is a small example: "Hi, this is an *example* to the *library* PL/SQL, adding *text* in bold and normal text." This text should be justified on the margins I can set. Thanks for the help.

Here's a suggestion.. Since this is a 3rd party tool, you MIGHT want to try asking at the plpdf developer's site. I believe they have a question and answers forum there to support their product..
Thank you,
Tony Miller
Webster, TX
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Hello Michael,
Thank you for your response. After doing some researching and experimenting, here's what I have found so far.
First, using an onkeypress function to alert the keycode, a chr(13) is being returned when I press the Enter key in the textarea.
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didn't think that checking for a length of zero and null would produce two different results - should have known better.
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