Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Hi Ulrich,

On 28/05/13 11:01, Ulrich Mayring wrote:
Hi all,

I just upgraded from 0.95 to 1.1 and one of the issues that crept up is that
suddenly FOP uses ligatures, which it did not use before. Latin words
containing the letters "fi" or "fl" are now rendered using ligatures in the
PDF, although they are written as two seperate characters in the XML input file.

Why would you /not/ want to have ligatures? They are there to make the
text look better.

For two reasons:

1. The text looks in fact worse, at least with the font I'm using.

2. Testability. We have thousands of integrations tests for the PDFs we generate with fop and our test framework does not support ligatures. For example, it looks for the phrase "identification" and does not find it in the PDF, if the fi ligature is used.

Ulrich


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