Hello, On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 07:20:44AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > Hmm, the text in fixltx2e.pdf misses the `fl' ligature... > > > > I could see this on page 5 with xpdf 3.00 only. Then I tried AR > > 7/Linux, gs8.50: fl is present. Afterwards I went back to xpdf 3.00 > > and suddenly the fl appeared mysteriously and I cannot reproduce the > > problem. I was just too tired. > On my GNU/Linux box, xpdf 3.00, Acroread 7.0.1, and gs 8.53 fail to > display the `fl' ligature in this document. Even after conversion to > PS with pdftops (from xpdf 3.00) the ligature is missing. In > fixltx2e.ps, the `fi' ligature (which displays fine) in font > BBZAHZ+CMR10 has glyph index \014, and `fl' is glyph index \015 -- the > original cmr10.pfb has the same positions. But in the text strings > the `fl' ligature is accessed with glyph index \012, which is wrong! The error was in my tool for optimizing page streams: "fl" was written as byte with ascii code 13 ('\r', '\015'). Then Multivalent (or acroread/ghostscript, but not xpdf 3.00) have read the pdf specification. The '\r' is interpreted as end of line marker and gets normalized to '\n'. I have updated all zip files: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~oberdiek/tmp/latex-tds/index.html Many thanks for your bug-report. Yours sincerely Heiko <[log in to unmask]>