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Well, I found a solution. I deleted the line
%%\usepackage{dejavu}

and the "ff" and "fi" ligatures are gone. It's strange, because they came up in text that was not in that font. (Edit: I was wrong here. The text was in the dejavu font.)

tex4ht no longer gets choked by these character ...

I get odd characters in the .dvi file when I use "ff" or "fi" in my text. "ff" shows up as the Greek phi, and "fi" shows up as the combined oe. Processing the .dvi file with dvipdfm or dvips gives me the correct results. The problem is that tex4ht works from the .dvi file and produces null ...

Thank you, Stefan_K, your comments are very helpful. Exactly what I wanted to know. I'm using TeX Live 2012. I'll do further investigation on the files to see if I can figure out what's going on. As long as my buyers are happy, I guess it doesn't matter what Lulu does with my files.

BTW, I'm ...

I'm not sure where to ask this. I wrote a book using LaTeX and used pdflatex for the final product. I uploaded my file to Lulu so I could sell it (in pdf format) and they processed it. They produced a new file that I downloaded for proofing. I cannot see any visible differences in the displayed ...

I realize that font selection is highly subjective, but I value the opinions of others. My primary goal is readability on mobile devices.

I've written a book about assembly language, so it has lots of code examples. The beta version uses New Century Schoolbook for the text with Bera Mono (scaled 85 ...

I would like to produce an epub version of my assembly language textbook (500+ pages, 8.5x11), which is written in LaTeX. I used the Circuit package m4 macros to create over 100 drawings. And I used the Listings package for over 100 code listings.

The book has been in use for a decade at my ...

So you're compiling with LaTeX, then running through dvips, then ps2pdf?

Actually, I was looking at the .ps file.

Have you checked the intermediate dvi and ps files to see if they're OK?
Aha!! The .dvi file was fine, so this showed that the problem was with dvips. I added -O 0,-1.0in to the ...

How actually are you compiling if you're not using dvips, pdftex or vtex?

I copied the code from the crop manual incorrectly. It should be

\usepackage[cam,letter,center,dvips]{crop}


However, this did not fix my problem. I have tried many things. For example,

\usepackage[paperwidth=7.44in ...

My page starts too low on the paper.

I am using the geometry package to specify page size:

\usepackage[dvips=false,pdftex=false,vtex=false]{geometry}
\geometry{
paperwidth=7.44in,paperheight=9.69in,
includeall=true,twoside=true,centering=true,
textwidth=5.1in,marginparwidth=1.0in,
top=0.25in ...

If the page size of the document is smaller than the paper you're printing it on, wouldn't it in fact be up to the software that's doing the printing (and maybe even the printer driver/printer's firmware) to figure out what to do with the extra space?

I seem to recall, for example, that evince and ...