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- Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:12 pm
- Forum: XeTeX
- Topic: Searchable ligatures in PDF docs from XeTeX
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Re: Searchable ligatures in PDF docs from XeTeX
Well, that's definitely an interesting and relevant link, so thanks for posting it. I read over the thread and don't see any obvious answers or even any solid agreement on what the problem is. All I can conclude for now is that LuaTeX does something magical to make this work, so I assume it must be ...
- Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:59 pm
- Forum: XeTeX
- Topic: Searchable ligatures in PDF docs from XeTeX
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5977
Searchable ligatures in PDF docs from XeTeX
Hello. I'm trying to figure out why XeTeX is producing PDFs in which ligatures are not searchable as expected even when I use OpenFonts that have proper ligatures. E.g. "The fine boy" produces a ligature on 'Th' and 'fi' (which I do want) but when you search the document in Acrobat or Sumatra or OS ...