Michael Barr writes:
Whatever you do, do not upgrade to Adobe reader 8. I found this on the texhax list.
Has anyone else been clobbered by the discovery that Adobe Acrobat 8 tacitly suppresses all ligature glyphs of the fi, fl, ff, ffi, and ffl sort and displays blanks in their place. They do this without warning, so that a file which displays perfectly well in Acrobat 7 is made unreadable in Acrobat 8.
It turns out that files converted (from the ps file) by the distiller (which costs something like $500) do not have this problem. I guess Adobe is tired of free use of their format. At TAC, we still consider the dvi to be the official format.
Michael
What is the context? I've been using Adobe Reader 8 on Windows since it first came out and have never seen this, very definitely including pdf files created by pdflatex on both Windows and Linux. As a quick check I just created a number of pdf files in various ways on both Windows and Linux and viewed them in both places using both Adobe Reader 7 and Adobe Reader 8 and was unable to see any difference at all. -- Bob -- Robert L. Knighten RLK@knighten.org