On 2011-10-11 08:04, Elliott C. Evans wrote: > We actually had a problem with this once at work back in, like, > 1994 or 95. We'd gone with "Lowest Bidder Printing, Inc." and > their cheap pirated version of the font we were trying to use > did not actually contain ligatures. Imagine a 300 page software > manual with references to "data les" instead of "data files". I've actually seen a similar problem recently. I discovered that if I open a certain PDF file in Adobe Reader on my Mac and copy a chunk of text, the word "first" pastes as "fi rst". (The Preview program doesn't have this problem when I copy from it.) -- Daniel W. Johnson panoptes@xxxxxxxxxx http://members.iquest.net/~panoptes/ 039 53 36 N / 086 11 55 W