Thank you for your bug report, the issue doesn't happen in 13.10, it's likely it got resolved since, closing the report. We could probably backport the fix to 12.04 if somebody found the exact change that resolve the issue. It's not an important issue though and low on the priority list
** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- 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: Fix Released 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