The headline task was closed last summer. Is this issue fully resolved, or is some other task still open for it?
Topic on Talk:Reading/Web/PDF Functionality/Flow
Just bringing this query back to the top.
well, as you probably already know in http://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/ the pdf generation is done by LaTex and thus does kerning and spacing correctly. Still we had to disable microtypography since it is supported by pdflatex but not by xelatex, which we know have to use for unicode reasons.
Yours Dirk