Re: zathura: Ligatures, like "fi", are not rendered. (fwd)

[Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

Hi there, fonts-texgyre maintainers.

I am forwarding this (see below, from bug 740801) as the upstream poppler
maintainers believe that there is a bug in "TeX Gyre Termes".

I have not yet verified the source code to see if the ligature is
incorrectly implemented, but temporarily uninstalling fonts-texgyre makes
the problem go away for programs that use poppler (like qpdfview, evince,
atril).

To avoid having the font blacklisted in fontconfig (which would simply kill
the font for all purposes), perhaps a small patch could be implemented?

When contacting me, please, keep me in CC's, as I am not subscribed to the
bug, nor to the mailing list.


Thanks,

Rogério.

----- Forwarded message from Florian <fbugs@gmx.net> -----

Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:07:55 +0200
From: Florian <fbugs@gmx.net>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <740801@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Re: zathura: Ligatures, like "fi", are not rendered.
X-Mailer: reportbug 6.5.0
Message-ID: <20140602150755.21588.54814.reportbug@arne.UNI-GRAZ.AT>

Package: libpoppler-glib8
Version: 0.24.5-4
Followup-For: Bug #740801


This bug report seems to be related:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73291

There is also a fix (or workaround, in fontconfig) mentioned in
that bug report, and linked to a commit:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/commit/?id=c6aa4d4bfcbed14f39d070fe7ef90a4b74642ee7


Since this bug affects most of the pdfs I am using for quite some
time now, I would be happy if this patch could be applied.

Thanks for your work, Florian


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-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 libpoppler-glib8 depends on:
ii  libc6              2.18-7
ii  libcairo2          1.12.16-2
ii  libfreetype6       2.5.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.40.0-3
ii  libpoppler44       0.24.5-4
ii  libstdc++6         4.9.0-5
ii  multiarch-support  2.18-7

libpoppler-glib8 recommends no packages.

libpoppler-glib8 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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