BUG: OpenType superscript broken in Illustrator 25.0.1

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December 16, 2020
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Assigning OpenType superscript features or superscript alternate glyphs does not appear to work in in Illustrator 25.0.1 (on MacOS Mojave).
The menu opens, but nothing happens if you press the shown optional figure styles. Adding them manually from the Glyphs window or by assigning a different position setting in the OpenType settings pane doesn’t work either.

You can however copy text from elsewhere with unicode superscript characters and they will appear correctly. Tested with Adobe Myriad and Fakt Pro, so not a font issue.

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Correct answer JonatanH11697936

Seems I solved the issue: I turned off ”Show Indic options” in the Type menu under Preferences and now OpenType superscript works again. The ”show Indic options” feature seems to be somewhat broken in the English version of Illustrator.

pixxxelschubser

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Try to set the Adobe Line Composer ( instead of the Arabic one) for these textframes.

There is no need to change the preferences.

JonatanH11697936AuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Seems I solved the issue: I turned off ”Show Indic options” in the Type menu under Preferences and now OpenType superscript works again. The ”show Indic options” feature seems to be somewhat broken in the English version of Illustrator.

JonatanH11697936Author

Inspiring

Was able to reproduce the issue by turning ”Show Indic options” back on again. Turning it on did not break the superscript functionality, but when I restarde Illustrator with ”Show Indic options” checked OpenType superscript stopped working again, so it clearly is the cause of this bug.