ligatures dropped from imported PDF text

Can't reproduce in current trunk with a PDF created by Scribus 1.3.5 and embedded DejaVu Serif font.

Try this one (InDesign CS2).

Indeed. I'll ping Miklos who did PDF importing feature.

OK, Miklos says it's rather a poppler bug. Will ping them.

I am adding a very simple ligature test file here, made with the following pdflatex source:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pslatex}
\begin{document}
ff fi ffl ffi
\end{document}

Hope this helps. Using bzr9458, Inkscape seems to hang when trying to import this document; perhaps another bug?

'ligatures.pdf' imports without errors (no freeze, nor dropped letters) in Inkscape 0.47+devel r9456 on OS X 10.5.8

(If recreating the text in Inkscape using the same font, no ligatures are used.)

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

bug #218045 seem related

While this has been fixed in poppler, it still remains unsolved in inkscape after 8 years. So difficult to hunt down?

Reproduced Inkscape 0.91 and trunk rev. 14564 when importing with the internal system.
Not reproduced when using Poppler/Cairo import.

Tested with Poppler 0.12.1 (on Windows XP 32-bit) and Poppler 0.33.0 (Xubuntu 15.10 64-bit).

That said, Poppler/Cairo is not the default option.I didn't check the issue tracker and the dev. list, but it should be interesting to compare both options and switch to Poppler/cairo as default option if the overall result is better than with the internal import.

Problem still present in Inkscape 0.91 r13725 (latest available in mint 18)

In inkscape 0.92, the problem is still present.

Example: http://www.financnisprava.cz/assets/tiskopisy/5405_23.pdf

It is easy to work-around this problem manually: Save document, open in the text editor, and the carefully replace affected ocurrences of ">f" by ">fi", and repeat the same for ff, fl, ffi, ffl.

Closing as part of the migration to GitLab http://alpha.inkscape.org/bug-migration/

Discussion/progress can be tracked in https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/593 (at the time of posting, no progress)