Work-around for ligature pasting?

[marcusmarcusrc]

I often need to copy text from adobe pdfs and paste it into other programs (Word, Mozilla), and something that happens in Windows XP is that when pasting words containing ligatures* ("fi", "fl", and presumably other ligatures that are less common) an extra space gets added after the ligature in the pasted =document: eg, I copy "efficacy" and it becomes "effi cacy". Is there a way to turn this off so I don't have to waste time deleting these extra spaces?

*this is a new vocab word for me... just learned it when trying to google for this problem.

Comments

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Variable kerning isn't as good. For example, in most (non-fixed-width, non-display) fonts, you really want a ligature for "fi" that doesn't have a separate dot over the I.