Problem: The fi ligature is improperly rendered by ps2pdf with certain fonts such as helvetica and times bold. The spacing of the characters is incorrect in the pdf file only.

Solution: This might be a Slackware-only issue. The problem seems to arise as a result of the contents of the ps2pdf executable script, which is reproduced here:

#!/bin/sh
# $Id: ps2pdf,v 1.3 2002/04/23 11:58:36 easysw Exp $
# Convert PostScript to PDF.

# Currently, we produce PDF 1.2 by default, but this is not guaranteed
# not to change in the future.
exec ps2pdf12 "$@"

The problem seems to disappear if you change ps2pdf12 to ps2pdf14 in the last line. It seems that using PDF 1.2 may no longer be a wise default.

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