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I have some PDFs which, when viewed in readers under Linux (tried atril from MATE and evince from GNOME), the ligatures (e.g. fi, fl) are missing, as can be seen from the example (it should be specifications):

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But when I view the same PDF in the built-in reader of Firefox (pdf.js) the ligatures are there; thus I know the PDF is not defective.

This looks like either this bug a missing font, but how to discover which one? This is the list of fonts in the PDF file:

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I am using Debian unstable (jessie). What I have of fonts installed is

ii ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-8 all The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType fonts ii ttf-dejavu 2.34-1 all transitional dummy package ii ttf-dejavu-core 2.34-1 all transitional dummy package ii ttf-dejavu-extra 2.34-1 all transitional dummy package ii ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.5 all Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
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  • FWIW, I'm having the same issue in Debian testing (sid) Commented Jul 30, 2014 at 17:18
  • Oops, I meant unstable (sid). Commented Jul 30, 2014 at 17:31

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This worked for me on Debian Jessie:

sudo aptitude remove fonts-texgyre

The behavior comes from the TexGyre fonts being substituted for Times and Helvetica when they appear in the pdf. I ended up installing it as one of the recommended packages of TexLive, so hopefully removing it won't break anything.

This answer was paraphrased from this Ubuntu bug report and confirmed in this one.

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