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The ff, ffi, ffl ligatures copy okay, but the fi and fl ones don't. Another side effect is that these ligatures make it impossible to search for text that has any of them.

A fix for cutting/pasting the quotes would be nice, but isn't as important (for my needs).


\documentclass [11pt]{article ...

Any ligatures (fi, fl, ffi, etc) I have that in the PDF file I generate are not able to be cut and pasted from acrobat to other text editors. When I was using PDFLaTeX, I could use the command \pdfglyphtounicode to map these ligatures to the letters they're made of. But that command doesn't seem to ...

The pdf file generated displays extra space between paragraphs (that part's easy), but the problem I'm having is when I copy&paste from the pdf file into another file (e.g. notepad, word, etc), there isn't a blank line between the paragraphs. Is there a way to force an invisible linefeed character ...

Previously, I was using PDFLaTeX to generate PDF files and would use the command
\pdfglyphtounicode{fl}{0066 006C}
to map the text layer of the PDF file to have the "fl" ligature be read/searched as the separate letters "f" and "l". I had similar lines for other ligatures used.

This command ...

Copying from Acrobat Reader and Acrobat Pro yield the same results (ligatures as boxes). I need to be able to get the ligatures right so for two reasons. First is so that searches work and second is that I often distribute the pdf files and I want some of the recipients to be able to copy and paste ...

The first é worked fine for when I tested your code with every font I tried (though I had to test with different fonts, since I don't own the rather expensive ones you have! I prefer open source...). Be sure that TXC is saving the file using Unicode (UTF-8) character encoding. I think older ...

Funny... I seem to have gone almost full circle. I managed to get TeXNicCenter/MikTeX and XeLaTeX working. I am running the following through

\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{xltxtra,fontspec,xunicode}
\defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase}
\title{Font Fun}
\begin ...

I ran it with the mathdesign package. It installed okay, but the font it used in the pdf (adobe listed it as font F15) file looked like doodoo and when I attempted to copy/paste, all the the ligatures were screwed up.

Is XeLaTeX a program that runs instead of pdftex? Does it output pdf files? That ...

Being the adverturous person I am, I put a line in my file
\usepackage{fontspec}

When running it, it started to install fontspec, but then got an error

starting package maintenance...
installation directory: "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9"
package repository: http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/systems ...

I am using TeXnicCenter (version 1.0 rc1) with MikTeX 2.9 and pdfTeX. This is all running on Windows 7x64. I've installed several packages, but I don't think any of them were XeLaTeX. Is that a whole nother program or added via the \usepackage line?