diff --git a/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/BaseStreamProcessor.cs b/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/BaseStreamProcessor.cs
index 17502c481..f72f3ddfa 100644
--- a/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/BaseStreamProcessor.cs
+++ b/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/BaseStreamProcessor.cs
@@ -215,6 +215,8 @@ public virtual void PushState()
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         public void ShowText(IInputBytes bytes)
         {
+            TextSequence++;
+
             var currentState = GetCurrentState();
 
             var font = currentState.FontState.FromExtendedGraphicsState
diff --git a/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/Operations/TextShowing/ShowText.cs b/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/Operations/TextShowing/ShowText.cs
index fd9ed9c29..7072b3db9 100644
--- a/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/Operations/TextShowing/ShowText.cs
+++ b/src/UglyToad.PdfPig/Graphics/Operations/TextShowing/ShowText.cs
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ public void Run(IOperationContext operationContext)
             operationContext.ShowText(input);
         }
 
-        string? EscapeText(string? text)
+        private static string? EscapeText(string? text)
         {
             if (text is null) return null;
             // Fix Issue 350 from PDF Spec 1.7 (page 408) on handling 'special characters' of '(', ')' and '\'.