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Zauguin, thank you for your response. Based on your response, it looks like XeLaTeX and the PDF converter are working as intended?


For Georgia (at least the Georgia version in my system, 5.59) the ligatures you are looking for are defined as "Discretionary Ligatures" and not as "Default Ligatures ...

It is unclear if the ligature characters are being used in the PDF generated by *LaTeX.

I did a simple experiment. I selected the characters fi and fl (highlighting them in preparation for a copy/paste). With the XeLaTeX versions of the PDFs, I was able to individually select 'f', 'i', and 'l ...

The same problem occurs with the Georgia font which is readily available on Linux.

Here is the fontspec:


\defaultfontfeatures[Georgia]{
Path = /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/,
Extension = .ttf,
UprightFont = *,
ItalicFont = *_Italic,
BoldFont = *_Bold,
BoldItalicFont = *_Bold ...

I have created fontspec files for various fonts and have been testing them with XeLaTeX. I have found that ligatures are not forming with certain fonts. Here is an example:

I have available to me Bitstream's Baskerville font. It is a truetype font and my font directory is as follows:


$ ls /usr ...