Hi Villu,

I know about ligatures, and normally PDFBox handles them well, e.g. ff ffi fi fl are 
quite common in TeX-produced PDF documents.
But why should PDFBox reproduce a fi (FI) ligature as fl (FL)?

Puzzled
Thomas Fischer


Am 15.02.2010 um 23:20 schrieb Villu Ruusmann:

> Hello there,
> 
> Check out "typographic ligatures", as in
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature
> 
> 
> VR
> 
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Thomas Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have a perfectly normal-looking PDF file (created using TeX and AFPL 
>> Ghostscript 6.50)
>> 
>> where
>> 
>> Case 2. Assume that Z is finite, but non-trivial.
>> 
>> comes out as
>> 
>> Case 2. Assume that Z is flnite, but non-trivial.
>> 
>> with an "l" (small L) in flinite.
>> 
>> Is there any explanation?
>> I have similar problems with documents that are retrodigitized (PDF with 
>> images and text layer), but this is genuine PDF, and I get the correct text 
>> if I select and copy from the file using Preview or Skim.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any hints
>> Thomas

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