Re: problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hi Johan,

If the only change is the pdftex version, than it sounds like this
is a pdftex bug. Any chance you can create a small standalone testfile?

Best, Taco

Johan Sandblom wrote:
> When I moved from pdftex-1.30.5-2.2 (from texlive-base-bin
> 2005.dfsg.2-10 on debian) to pdftex-1.40.1 suddenly ligatures in
> gentium exhibited erratic behavior: they appeared correctly (or, more
> accurately, the letters appeared, they did not look like a proper
> ligature) on screen in xpdf and acroread but did not print (there were
> just empty spaces). On windows, the fi, fl, and ff combinations made
> blanks, just as on the printer. Reverting to pdftex-1.30.5-2.2
> corrected the problem. Gentium is from ttf-gentium 1.02-2 on debian
> and the typescript I use is below. Perhaps my poor typesetting
> knowledge has lead me wrong and the lack of true ligatures is the
> actual problem?
> 
> Regards, Johan
> 
> 
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