Package: poppler-utils Version: 0.26.5-2 Severity: normal pdftotext has improved to generate ASCII instead of ligatures (like ff) but it still generates ligatures in some cases. For instance, if I run pdflatex on the following file:
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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
chiffre
ê
\end{document}
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I get some ff-lig1.pdf PDF file (attached), and running pdftotext on
it gives:
chiffre
ê
This is OK. But if I run ps2pdf on this PDF file, I get some other
ff-lig1-gs.pdf PDF file (attached), and running pdftotext on it gives:
chiffre
ê
i.e. with a ligature, which makes searching text such as "chiffre"
unpredictable (the output is also less readable in a terminal with
a monospace font).
This problem doesn't occur if I replace "ê" by "é" in the LaTeX file!
Note that xpdf finds "chiffre" in both cases, so that the bug seems
to be in pdftotext. Moreover pdftotext from poppler-utils 0.18.4-6
(wheezy) gives the ligature on the 4 attached PDF files, so that it
seems that pdftotext has been improved except in the particular case
mentioned above.
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages poppler-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-13
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-2
ii liblcms2-2 2.6-3+b3
ii libpoppler46 0.26.5-2
ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-5
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
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-- no debconf information
ff-lig1.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
ff-lig1-gs.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
ff-lig2.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
ff-lig2-gs.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
