problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

From: "Johan Sandblom" <jsandblom@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:53:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97a06f070701311253v7c1028d1n3a3d979234f92bbb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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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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