converting italicized text followed by a spacing character, plain text
When I convert this HTML code -
<tspan x="100" y="48">It <tspan font-style="italic">can</tspan>  wait</tspan>
- to PDF using Acrobat DC Pro Version 2015.010.20056
on a Windows 7 machine, the italicized text ("can")
is converted to plain text.
The problem occurs whenever italicized text
is followed by " " followed by plain text.
[I add " " to make it appear that
the space between the italicized text and
the plain text on both sides of it is the
same. Without it, the italicized text
appears much closer to the plain text
on its right.]
If  " follows italicized text
but is not itself followed by plain
text, it is properly converted.
The text itself is part of an image
created using svg version 1.1.
[I use svg because I want text
in images I create to be searchable.]
I do the conversion by printing the HTML
file to the Adobe printer.
How can I get the intended results - i.e.,
a PDF file including italicized text
followed by plain text spaced as intended?