Hi Nate,

Thank you for submitting this feature request. After thorough investigation we concluded that the implementation of this feature would not work consistently and intuitively and thus will not be suitable for all use cases.

If one would like such feature, they can handle that in the PdfExporting event of the Grid where they can replace the Hyphens with whitespaces respectively.

Example

protected void RadGrid1_PdfExporting(object sender, GridPdfExportingArgs e)
{
    // Replace hyphens only inside <td>...</td> elements, preserving attributes in <td>
    string pattern = @"(<td\b[^>]*>)(.*?)(</td>)";
    e.RawHTML = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(
        e.RawHTML,
        pattern,
        match =>
        {
            string openTag = match.Groups[1].Value;
            string innerText = match.Groups[2].Value.Replace("-", "- ");
            string closeTag = match.Groups[3].Value;
            return openTag + innerText + closeTag;
        },
        System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.Singleline
    );
}

Note: This will replace the hyphens in all cells, so words such as "e-mail", "check-in", "clean-cut", "follow-up", etc.. will also be affected. If you need to break specific words, use additional context (e.g. Replace("SomeKeyWord-", "- ");) to target them specifically.

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,
Attila Antal
Progress Telerik