I think it also relates to fonts. Other pdfs have no issues, and I used to have a problem with ligatures specifically for dejavu serif (bug 736346); that bug was closed with the suggestion that the fix had something to do with cairo.
Thanks. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Sebastian Ramacher <sramac...@debian.org>wrote: > Control: tags -1 = > Control: reassign -1 libpoppler-glib8 0.22.5-4 > > On 2014-03-05 08:28:39, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks for checking. I'm reassigning the bug to poppler. > > The initial bug report for the convenience of the poppler maintainers: > > On 2014-03-05 00:14:44, Alex Rozenshteyn wrote: > > Package: zathura > > Version: 0.2.7-1 > > Severity: important > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > 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 > > > > The file renders fine using mupdf. > > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: jessie/sid > > APT prefers testing-proposed-updates > > APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (50, > 'unstable') > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > > > Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > > > Versions of packages zathura depends on: > > ii libc6 2.17-97 > > ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2 > > ii libgirara-gtk3-1 0.2.0-1 > > ii libglib2.0-0 2.38.2-5 > > ii libgtk-3-0 3.10.7-1 > > ii libmagic1 1:5.17-0.1 > > ii libpoppler-glib8 0.22.5-4 > > ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.3.1-1 > > > > zathura recommends no packages. > > > > Versions of packages zathura suggests: > > ii iceweasel [www-browser] 24.2.0esr-1 > > ii lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.8pre5-1 > > ii poppler-data 0.4.6-5 > > ii zathura-cb 0.1.2-5 > > ii zathura-djvu 0.2.3-5 > > ii zathura-ps 0.2.2-5 > > > > -- no debconf information > > Cheers > -- > Sebastian Ramacher > -- Alex R