I could be wrong, but it seems to me that bug 1317599 was originally filed about a document that is typeset predominately in Times/Times- Roman. After that bug was fixed by modifying fontconfig, this bug remained for documents typeset in Helvetica. See also comment #3 in this bug. The poppler patch described in comment's #5 and #6 of this bug will fix both issues.
As a result of a fixed version of poppler being available, there are comments in an upstream bug report to revert the changes in fontconfig to avoid side-effects in LaTex and other programs using the TeX Gyre fonts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to fontconfig in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1379375 Title: evince does not display ligatures Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: While there's Bug #1325230 with the same title and the linked PDFs there are working fine here (displaying "fi" correctly) there seems to be still some bug regarding ligatures. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/1325230 I have some PDFs substituting Helvetica (and others) with TeX Gyre Heros and showing no "fi" ligature. I attached a patch I derived from the patch in Bug #1325230 which is working fine. Now it uses Nimbus Sans L and the ligatures are fine. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/1379375/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp