[Scribus] ligatures in Scribus

Suki Venkat, [TnQ] skvenkat
Wed May 25 05:43:20 CEST 2005


Hi,

> How does PDFs handle ligatures? If a text has the "ff" ligature and I
> select and copy that text, will I get two f:s or an ff-ligature when I
> paste it into some other program?

No, modern PDFs (say one produced by InDesign) are able to put in
ligatures and at the same time allow cutting and pasting to work
(ligature "ff" will show-up as two "f"s). I think this is done by
associating certain text with a graphical-glyph. This is possible but I
don't know if PDFlib can do it.

Suki





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