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mjleavitt01236541
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September 19, 2018
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Unable to turn off ligatures

  • September 19, 2018
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Hi. I'm using Illustrator CC and I can't turn off ligatures - all options are grayed out. See screenshot beow.

Anyone else have this issue or a solution?

(Not sure if it's relevant but I can turn them off in InDesign without issue, only happens in illustrator). Thanks

      Correct answer Sir_Awesomness

      I had a similar problem with a font called Lafayette Comic Pro.

       

      I was able to solve it by going to Window -> Character Styles, making a new style with that font, then in Open Type Features of the Character Style Options window, turning on "Standard ligatures", pressing OK, then editing it, turning them off and pressing OK again.

       

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      Sir_Awesomness
      Sir_AwesomnessCorrect answer
      Participant
      February 28, 2023

      I had a similar problem with a font called Lafayette Comic Pro.

       

      I was able to solve it by going to Window -> Character Styles, making a new style with that font, then in Open Type Features of the Character Style Options window, turning on "Standard ligatures", pressing OK, then editing it, turning them off and pressing OK again.

       

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        majkenCB
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        August 15, 2023

        None of the above worked for Georgia Bold (TTF) on Mac.  All the options worked for Myriad Pro. But as soon as I change it back to Georgia, I have the same issue.

         

        I activated the Adobe Georgia font family and the ligature option became availble but did nothing. 

         

        COME ON ADOBE! Please fix. This is wasting serious time. The ligatures should not be the default. Allow us to turn it on when needed.

         

        A good bit of my work is interpretives for kids. Some challenged. And I am stuck with some fonts since they are part of the brand established before me.

         

        Looking forward to the fix. Thanks.

         

         

         

         

         

          Monika Gause
          Community Expert
          Monika GauseCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          August 15, 2023

          Please post screenshots.

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          mungmeister
          Participant
          July 11, 2020

          How do I turn ligatures off in Premiere?

          Monika Gause
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          Monika GauseCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          July 11, 2020

          You might want to ask in the Premiere forum.

          https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/bd-p/premiere-pro?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all

          barbara_a7746676
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          barbara_a7746676Community Expert
          Community Expert
          September 19, 2018

          I don't have the Serifa font, but the ligature setting should work the same on any OpenType font. Click the fi icon in the OpenType panel to turn ligatures on/off.

            mjleavitt01236541
            mjleavitt01236541Author
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            September 19, 2018

            See above, that's the whole issue, I know how it "should" work - the option is grayed out. (See my screen captures above)

            Likely because the font is TTF vs OT. But that still is confounding that the Open Type panel, even when grayed out, turns the kerning pairs on and off as if they were ligatures. The work around I found was choose an actual OT font, turn off ligatures, change back to Serifa TTF and it kept the ligature settings.

            Monika Gause
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            Monika GauseCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            September 19, 2018

            Can you select this with the text-tool and then turn off the ligatures in the Open Type Panel?

            mjleavitt01236541
            mjleavitt01236541Author
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            September 19, 2018

            I was not able to, BUT I just changed the font to Myriad, the ligatures options came back. I turned them off. Then switched back to Serifa and the ligatures stayed "off" but still grayed out. See screen shots. This doesn't make any sense to me...

              Monika Gause
              Community Expert
              Monika GauseCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              September 19, 2018

              What kind of font is "Serifa"?

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