Bug#507505: evince: Evince does not display ligatures

Chris Walker chrisw at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Dec 1 23:09:56 UTC 2008


Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at ubuntu.com> writes:

> Christopher J. Walker wrote:
> > Eg on page 41, gv correctly displays "Clive Efford", whereas evince
> > displays "Clive E ord".
> > 
> > chrisw at Daedalus:~$ evince Desktop/84.pdf 
> > Error: Invalid Font Weight
> > Error: Invalid Font Weight
> 
> I guess you're talking about
> http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmtran/84/84.pdf :-)

Oops - yes I am.  :-)

One other thing to mention is that copy and pasting pastes the space
instead of ff - eg "Clive E ord". 

The same bug seems to apply to xpdf in testing (3.02-1.4) too. 

Do feel free to forward it upstream. 

Chris







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