Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Cut & Paste from PDF File generated by XeLaTeX

[novicedude]

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 work with XeLaTeX.

Is there a comparable command for XeLaTeX to achieve the same result? Or is there a patch to XeLaTeX (I'm currently using version "This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-0.9997.5 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit)")?

(I know I can switch back to PDFLaTeX, but that's not feasible for the stuff I'm needing to do)

[localghost]

As always, minimal example please.


Thorsten

[novicedude]

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).

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\documentclass [11pt]{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra,fontspec,xunicode}

\setromanfont{Adobe Garamond Pro}

%% these use to work. but not with xelatex
%\pdfglyphtounicode{fi}{0066 0069}
%\pdfglyphtounicode{fl}{0066 006C}
%\pdfglyphtounicode{quoteleft}{0027}
%\pdfglyphtounicode{quotedblleft}{0022}

\begin {document}
files flow
\end {document}

[localghost]

The fontspec package manual suggests to turn on TeX ligatures.

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\setromanfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Adobe Garamond Pro}

This comes with no warranty because I have the font not present.