Storing a PdfContentByte state ?

[bruno <bruno (at) lowagie.com>]

Mark Storer wrote:

> Poking around in the PDF Reference I don't see anything specifically stating that text state commands like 'Tf' (aka setFontAndSize()) are illegal outside BT/ET.
No, it's not illegal, but I prefer my text operators inside a text block.
It helps if you want to debug a PDF page by reading the content stream ;-)
Of course if you have different text blocks, you could define the font 
and size
up front, outside a BT/ET sequence.
br,
Bruno


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