PDF Export problem with tables

[Jeff]

I'm trying to export an HTML table from RadEditor and the text is getting jumbled up. I can reproduce this by pasting the code below into the RadEditor Export to PDF demo. What am I doing wrong?
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<table height="180" style="width: 720px;" border="1">
    <colgroup><col /></colgroup>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>
            <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 48px;">Your Name Here<br />
            [phone]</span></p>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

[Jeff]

More information: the code below exports to PDF from RadEditor correctly. This leads me to believe the RadEditor Export to PDF function is not processing the <span> tag.
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<table height="180" style="width: 720px;" border="1">
    <colgroup><col /></colgroup>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>
            <p style="text-align: center; font-size: 48px;">Your Name Here<br />
            [phone]</p>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

[Ianko]

Hello Jeffrey,

The PDF library used to export the content is quite limited and such cases cannot be properly handled.

Indeed, span elements with inline stylization cannot be exported and due to that I am unable to suggest you an easy approach to resolve this behavior.

What I can suggest is integrating a third-party or custom library to serve the PDF exporting functionality as described in the blog post. 

Another possible way is to implement a custom filter that transfers the inline styles from the span element to the paragraph, although such logic could break different formatting in one paragraph.

Regards,
Ianko
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