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Originally Posted by TheFakeMoonMan
I converted a few books from PDFs to EPUBs and it seems that some of the double L's in certain words (Examples: carefully, filled, and well) don't convert properly. The second L in the word is missing and in place of it is a space.
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The document is using what are called ligatures, which make certain character pairs smaller. Common are ff, fi, fl, ffl, ffi. There are others, such as the one you noted, ll.
IIRC, Kovid said that the new PDF conversion engine handles ligatures correctly. I don't know its release status, though.