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NaphtaliPress
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March 11, 2011
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Does Framemaker 10 support opentype ligatures like InDesign?

  • March 11, 2011
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Could not find an answer to this doing a search. Does FM 10 offer full Opentype support for ligatures etc?

Thanks.

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    Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
    Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
    Legend
    March 11, 2011

    Naphtali,

    As Van said, FrameMaker does not support any OpenType »features«, it has the same plain old text composer. There are some new fonts around that non longer contain traditional kerning pairs but only OpenType kerning and FrameMaker has a problem with them (unless you switch off kerning).

    Basically this is a pity, because there very cool fonts around which take advantage of OpenType features, one example was mentioned today by Thomas Phinney, a font you can use to build charts by switching on ligatures:

    http://tktype.com/chartwell.php

    Cool, isn't it?

    - Michael

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    NaphtaliPressAuthor
    Participant
    March 11, 2011

    Thanks all; Adobe sales help told me it did, but I figured I'd get a straight answer here as I'm not going to upgrade if it doesn't support it.

    Van Kurtz
    Van Kurtz
    Inspiring
    March 11, 2011

    To my knowledge, FrameMaker does not replace certain character pairs with their ligatures; however, you can insert the ligatures directly by selecting File > Utilities > Character Palette. Of course, spell checking will find words with ligatures as misspelled words.

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