In the attached testcase (evinceligbug.pdf), the ligature comes from an alternate font as code 0x56, ASCII 'V'. Whether or not the ligature is blank on highlighting or shows V depends on whether V is present in the subsetted font that the rest of the word uses. One could argue that showing V is a feature not a bug, as it is a V that goes into the copy/paste buffer. But evince is inconsistent; if you highlight the lone ff earlier in the document (the one that isn't embedded in a word) it shows ff, not blank or V.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1256468 Title: Evince loses ligature when highlighting Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Evince renders a PDF document containing ff ligatures (taken from a different font than the surrounding text comes from) correctly upon first opening the file, but fails to render an ff ligature when the word containing it is highlighted with the cursor. I am attaching a testcase document (evinceligbug.pdf , 24728 bytes) that illustrates the problem. Please contact me at tom...@gmail.com if for some reason the document didn't survive the attachment process. Seen in evince 3.4.0 under Linux nine 3.2.0-56-generic #86-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 09:20:45 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Release: 12.04 evince: Installed: 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.7 Candidate: 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.7 Version table: *** 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.7 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.4.0-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1256468/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
