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Old 04-19-2008, 11:42 AM   #20
Peter Sorotokin
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Originally Posted by Xenophon View Post
It would be really wonderful if Adobe's ace engineering team would fix their support for ligatures to actually work. Adobe's own typography guru is on record as saying that the way Apple handles ligatures in OS X is actually the way it's supposed to work* -- but Adobe Acrobat and Adobe's other .pdf tools produce incorrect spacing with that output.

And let's not forget that the Sony reader displays the wrong glyphs when presented with ligatures in a pdf file. That's Adobe's code too! At least Acrobat shows the glyphs, albeit with broken character spacing.
Xenophon,

Can you provide the details? In most cases character spacing is burned into the PDF file at creation time, so it may not be possible to fix that in PDF viewer, but showing wrong glyph is bad. Are you saying that Apple's Preview works correctly and Acrobat does not? Also, did you try Digital Editions?

Handling ligatures for EPUB is not at the top of our list, but we plan to do it. (Actually, it is not possible to support some languages, e.g. Arabic or Hindi, without doing ligatures properly, so we'll have to get to it).

Peter
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