[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 124191] Text copied from a PDF exported using Linux Libertine G Graphite font is missing characters. (comment 24)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124191

--- Comment #44 from Khaled Hosny (inactive) <khaledhosny at eglug.org> ---
(In reply to Frank Zimmerman from comment #41)
> During the testing procedure, I realized that using Linux Libertine G in
> Microsoft Word (2016) with Ligatures turned on, I could export to PDF (using
> the MS Word Export function), and the resulting PDF worked fine for copying
> out text, with all PDF readers (Foxit, Acrobat, Chrome, Edge).
> 
> So, how is it that the Word PDF export can bypass the /ActualText tagging
> problem? Does it have some internal way of preparing the PDF that avoids
> this or substitutes a more compatible method?

Word (like most applications) does not support Graphite fonts, so it is using
the OpenType layout tables in the font (which is basically like using Linux
Libertine O) and these don’t have the same problem. The problem is specifically
in the Graphite part of the font which seems to be misbehaving.

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