Standard Ligatures don't work in inDesign 18.2 (2023)

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Hello everyone,I ran into a problem, my font does not work fully in inDesign 18.2.1 (2023).Standard Ligatures and Stylistic Alternates is unavailable. I would not know, but my client told me about it. Same font works fine in 2020 version. I checked that the Ligatures function is activated in Character window menu and Stylistic Alternates are displaying in Glyph window. Font file has OTF format.For the font creating I use Fontlab 7. Has anyone else experienced a similar issue and has a solution?

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com · Answer

You created the font in FontLab? Might be something to do with how the font was encoded.

Note: One thing that changed between InDesign 2020 and 2023 is that InDesign no longer supports PostScript fonts, so there might be a connection there.

I don't know anything about FontLab, but I do know a lot about fonts in general and Unicode specifically.

The standard Latin ligatures are defined here by the Unicode.org: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB00.pdf

Hopefully someone with more experience with FontLab will chime in on this discussion.

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