[PDFBOX-5599] Support latin ligatures

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: FontBox
• Labels: gsub
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 11/May/23 18:11
• Updated: 18/Aug/23 05:46
• Resolved: 11/Aug/23 15:39

Description

I was able to successfully create PDFs with latin ligatures using the Calibri font (but not the Arial font, I think these aren't supported, although others are). I'm using a stripped down version of the GSUB worker for Bengali. It had one small flaw which I'll fix in a separate issue.

Sub-Tasks

• applyGsubFeature() doesn't use the longest possible replacement: Closed