Removal of text supporting ligatures when documents are printed through the Windows Print System.

[Giles Davey1]

HiWe've got a system that converts the output of the print spooler to PDF files. Analogous to a Microsoft Print to PDF.The resulting PDF file looks fine and prints fine but the underlying text is wrong where non-unicode ligatures are in use.The specific example is the tt and tti ligatures that Calibri employs.When I copy the text from a PDF produced in this way I getAptos font - Matti Calibri font - Ma􀆫We process the data programmatically so as a result using ligatures breaks the processing.We believe that it's the Windows Print System that removes/changes the characters since

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