Bug#742767: TeX Gyre OpenType and wrongly(?) named glyphs

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

Am Freitag, den 18.07.2014, 21:00 +0000 schrieb Karl Berry: 
> I hadn't realized that the ligatures only failed with non-fully-embedded
> PDF's.  Such PDF's are inherently defective; it's been a long time since
> Adobe recommended anything but full embedding (not that I think we must
> kowtow to everything Adobe says, but anyway).  So maybe it would
> actually be a good thing for ligatures to lose :), so that people fix
> the PDF's where the problem originates

That's good advice, but non-fully-embedded PDFs are already in the wild,
especially in the academic field. It would be a shame if the FOSS stack
could not render them correctly because of some technical details. And
in this specific case the ad-hoc fix would be a trivial fix in the font
files.

- Fabian