I just verified that it does happen with evince (from package evince-gtk 3.10.0-2), which claims to be "using poppler/cairo (0.22.5)", and with epdfview 0.1.8-3.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Sebastian Ramacher <sramac...@debian.org>wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > Hi > > On 2014-03-05 00:14:44, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote: > > I tried to view a document in Zathura, and I noticed something weird > about the > > text. Namely, the bigram "fi" was conspicuously absent. Attached is a > > screenshot of a section of the document ( > http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0749v1). > > > > Missing ligatures can be spotted in the following locations: > > > > * 3rd line, right of the middle: computation is [fi]xed a priori > > * 4th line, below "priori": we de[fi]ne a notion > > * 5th line, beginning: prove that it satis[fi]es > > I suppose that also happens in any other poppler based PDF viewer > (evince, okular, …)? > > Regards > -- > Sebastian Ramacher > -- Alex R