Strange problem - Extra space coming before period.

I have a strange problem with CR 2008 SP2. I tried in SP3 also . Same problem exists.
Consider a text like "Configuration.". If I add this text in designer and use a preview is shows like "Configuration.". But when I run the report , it displays like "Configuration .". Note the extra spaces coming before period. I am using win xp . And using win form application. The font used Times New Roman. This issue is common to any text shown in report. Where ever a period is displayed , extra space is coming . How to solve this issue.

There is an "fix" which has been intentionally not documented in release notes as itu2019s a new hidden API added in XIR2 SP4 and XI3.1 that could cause problems with rendering of other fields. To activate the fix, a configuration file has to be added to the project, called "app.config" (.NET 2.0) and it contains the following information. Then rebuild the solution. Please test thoroughly...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
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</configSections>
<businessObjects>
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In the first case, you could add a space right after the '$2' in the Replace With string, but it already may have a space, in which case you suddenly have two. One alternative is to optionally remove it with the Find string (add it as an optional match) and always add it with the Replace string, but remember that this string will only be found if there is a space preceding it. That way you'd only check the space after in cases where there was a bad space before.
So I propose you add another two find/changes to add the space, only when necessary.
One Space After: find
([.,;:!$\]\}~}~]])(?!\s)
replace:
$0 [followed by one single space]
One Space Before: find
(?<!\s)([\[\{$~{~[])
replace:
[one single space] $0
Color-coding with my WhatTheGrep might make it just a tad clearer what's going on in that jumble of codes:
(1 [ .,;:! $ \] \} ~} ~] ] 1) (?!! \s !)
and
(?<!<! \s <!) (1 [ \[ \{ \( ~{ ~[ ] 1)
(Orange is lookahead/lookbehind, blue is a regular escaped character, pink is an InDesign special character, green is normal grouping parentheses, and lavender is a character group.)

Extra spaces added (that I can't get rid of) when using STHeiti font. Anything I can do?

Hi there,
When I use the font that I want to use (STHeiti), extra spaces get added automatically—spaces that, by the way, I can’t ‘delete’—after every apostrophe (or single quotation mark). See screen grabs below:
Here's another example:
Do you know how I can make these spaces go away? When I do a search on the internet (InDesign STHeiti), I see that others have had other types of problems with this font… having to do with exporting a finished project to pdf and getting it printed.
In the context of talking about it, one person says that the STHeiti font "is installed as part of the Apple operating system, and is probably only meant for onscreen display".
But someone else adds: "the font is installed, by default, on all macs running 10.4 and above (possibly further back than that, but lets go with what we know), so opening the file at the printers on such a mac will have the font available”
I'm on my Mac, though (not yet ready for the printer), so why do I have a problem using this font?
I know I could use another font, but this STHeiti is a really nice one!
Thanks for any advice,
Malcolm

Wow... that works beautifully.
I've done it, but before proceeding too much further I'll google and try to find out more about this "Use Typographer's Quotes" setting. Don't want it to bite me down the road.
Thanks very much for the tip—
Malcolm

Strange problem - Extra space coming before period.

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