Sounds like a font ligatures issue. I've tested evince with a file from the web http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf /astro-ph/0609120 which has been generated with Latex, in which the 'fi's look fine. I don't we can diagnose this further without a sample file that shows the problem.
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