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Herb

02 Mar, 2016 03:33 PM

When I READ a PDF file on my antique Mac using TenFourFox the "fs" are f---ed. They are replaced with tic boxes. When I READ the same document with Safari , it is fine. Same version of Adobe reader as far as I know. However when I save the document and then read it with ADOBE, the document is normal.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Cameron Kaiser on 02 Mar, 2016 03:46 PM

   

   The glyphs you're referring to are actually "fi" digraphs (f + i). This is technically a Mozilla bug since it affects various other minority platforms, but they haven't shown much interest in fixing it.

   For a variety of reasons including this one, I'm planning to expose an option in 45 to disable the internal PDF reader (whether or not I can fix this and other related bugs). If you'd prefer simply not to deal with this, you can go into about:config and set pdfjs.disabled to true.

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2. 2 Posted by Herb Wiseman on 02 Mar, 2016 04:30 PM

   

   Thanks Cameron. BTW it is not just Fi but also FL.

   Herb

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