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rcraighead
Legend
January 20, 2020
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How to access Ligatures??

  • January 20, 2020
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I downloaded Baskerville URW expecting to see ligatures as they appear on the Adobe download page and I see them in the Glyph panel, but double-clicking the gliph returns the standard characters. How do I access them? When I open the "OpenType" panel all options are grayed out along the bottom.


AI CC 2020, Mac

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Correct answer rcraighead

Thanks for the tip about the "document Info" panel.
I've reverted to our standard "Baskerville TrueType" font and can access "fi" and "fl" ligatures with "Shift+Opt+5 & 6".

We can automate conversion with a script for production purposes. 

Thansks for the help, Ton!

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Ton Frederiks
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Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 21, 2020

But the InDesign type engine is smarter than the one in Illustrator and Photoshop.

Z
ZBalling
Inspiring
August 12, 2020

No kidding! Consdering ffi [U+FB03 : LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFI] is copied as U+000E!! https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/bug-in-unicode-processing-of-a-ligature-%EF%AC%83-u-fb03-latin-small-ligature-ffi-and-others/m-p/11265365?page=1#M264785

Ton Frederiks
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Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
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August 12, 2020

?

I can copy your 

ffi

and paste it as

ffi

U+FB03

rcraighead
rcraigheadAuthor
Legend
January 21, 2020

Thanks Ton. I tried this on my home Mac (2011) and am able to double-click glyphs to place ligatures in text block but "Standard Ligatures" is grayed out in "OpenType" panel. Same in AI CC 2015 and 2020.

I was hoping to turn on "Standard Ligatures" so they would auto-populate when entering text. Does a font have to be "OpenType" for this feature to work?

 

Ton Frederiks
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Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 21, 2020

Ray, according to the Document Info panel in Illustrator, it is an OpenType font.

    rcraighead
    rcraigheadAuthorCorrect answer
    Legend
    January 21, 2020

    Thanks for the tip about the "document Info" panel.
    I've reverted to our standard "Baskerville TrueType" font and can access "fi" and "fl" ligatures with "Shift+Opt+5 & 6".

    We can automate conversion with a script for production purposes. 

    Thansks for the help, Ton!

    Ton Frederiks
    Community Expert
    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 20, 2020

    Looks like a bug. Ligatures are recognized in Indesign for Baskerville URW, but not in Illustrator.

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