Premiere Pro crashes when typing in italics and using certain combinations of letters

Hello, on this machine, I do not have Lucida Grande.

BUT, I noticed, in Preferences>Graphics, there is a checkmark for ligatures.

Did you try disabling it to see if it fixes your issue?

So until this bug gets fixed I've found a temporary (but annoying) workaround.

When typing words with "fi" or "ff" (or whatever is crashing your premier), add in a period after the "f". Then, individually shrink that period down to size one font. It will appear as if there is nothing between the "f" and the next letter. You can also keep large bodies of text in your workstation without worrying about more abstract formatting issues.

I'd recommend typing out dialogue in a word processing software like word or google docs, and then running a 'replace all' for "ff" and "fi" with "f.f" and "f.i".

Just an idea—no need to try it if it's not worth your time.

Edit:

I take it back...if I use Lucida Grande faux italics with a text string that would normally have a f ligature, the text box expands and the text does not appear. Premiere doesn't crash, but something's going on. I also tried the same text properties in Photoshop and got a program error. If I switch to Lucida Unicode things seem to work as expected.

Is the issue restricted to Lucida Grande? I don't know. I never use that font, and I haven't seen it with the fonts I use, so I'm not inclined to investigate too much further.

I guess I'll stay out of this discussion and leave it to people who are experiencing the issue.

why would the issue have to do with clearing the caches, when there appears to be many people experiencing the same bug? I have had the program crash on me three different times, just this morning.

I'm working on a project that is going to take over 100 hours of work from Premier, and 75% of the project involves a text-overlay. I cannot stress how annoying it is to CONSTANTLY have to save my work every single time I want to use itallics... at the risk of the program crashing and losing my progress.

When I get in the zone and forget to save my work, is when the crashes most often occur and I lose what I've written, and have to do it all over again, while trying to remember what I'd originally typed.

I wonder if clearing your font caches might help. Here's a  page detailing that process. Note the section on Adobe caches.

Just updated to the latest v23. Issue not resolved. I've also learned that I can't type "ff" either.

Gar,

I suggest you update to v.23 or later to check for a fix. You can install it alongside your existing apps. Could you check Creative Cloud preferences to ensure you keep legacy versions?

Thanks,
Kevin

Forgot to mention above: Version 22.6.2 (Build 2)

Hey!

Sorry for the late reply. I've buried myself in editing recently.

I do have a USA English install that I have a license for through a University. I'm using an M1pro MacBook pro.

Font: Lucinda Grande

Formatting: Text Coloring, Resizing

Replicable Issue: After typing "...fi" in a text box premier will crash. I just now had another crash typing the word "significant".

Thank you for the vote of confidence, Jevin, I'll try to do my best replicate the issue, but my gut feeling is that there are other parameters at play. Is it a US English install? @Gar_bq are you also using the M1 processor? Latest Pr version? Which font is in use? Is the crasher caused by italics?