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Alternate glyphs not working

Explorer ,
Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

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Hi guys,

at work, we use a CC for Teams subscription. I have a bug that none of the others have and has remained throughout the installation of a newer version of InDesign and trashing the prefs.

If I type a new text I cannot select alternate glyphs; there is no on-context menu and if I manually select another version of the glyph it will just show the standard. If I use a file with text made by a colleague it works normally. We use macOS Sierra 10.12.6 with the latest version of InDesign.

Anyone know what's happening? I haven't been able to find it on this forum, nor by googling it. I'm hoping it's a simple setting I'm overlooking

Thanks!

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Explorer , Dec 08, 2017 Dec 08, 2017

Thanks everyone for your help. It isn't on World ready, and it's turned on in advanced, but your suggestions made me think and the solution was too easy

I checked language settings and discovered my standard language switched to Malayalam (granted, that is weird). I reset it and everything works fine.

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I'll post how to change it in case someone else stumbles upon this thread with the same problem: open InDesign (but not a document) and go to your language settings (command T), set it to your prefe

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Adobe Employee ,
Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

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Hi,

Can you check the paragraph panel menu and let us know the composer? If it is Adobe world ready, then you wont see the blue underline below the glyph that on hover shows the alternative glyphs...

-Aman

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

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Th ecomposer is on Adobe world ready, but it used to work fine untill the CC 2018 update last month.

it always was on Adobe world ready

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Adobe Employee ,
Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

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Hi,

It should not have worked after CC 2017.0 release of InDesign.

Can you please check that again?

You can still apply the alternative via character panel or the glyph panel.

-Aman

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

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Hi

It worked on CC 2017 without a doubt

i work with Hebrew all the time and World ready paragraph composer and used to work always worki with alternative glyphs in hebrew

this bug started ever since last update for CC 2018

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Community Expert ,
Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

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I remember that exclusion when it came out. If it showed up in CC 2017, it wasn't supposed to. See the documentation circled below:

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

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ok.

Parhaps it was Middle Eastern composer?

Did that change to the World ready?

I rememeber i used to switch glyphs in Hebrew

will it be fixed in the future?

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Adobe Employee ,
Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

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Hi,

Thanks Steve for citing the InDesign documentation. This was supposed to have been blocked since CC 2017 release(both the OpenType adornment and the blue underline which is seen on selecting a single character).

This was done purposefully due to some limitations.

If you feel this should come back then do add it here:Adobe InDesign Feedback

-Aman

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Explorer ,
Dec 08, 2017 Dec 08, 2017

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Thanks everyone for your help. It isn't on World ready, and it's turned on in advanced, but your suggestions made me think and the solution was too easy

I checked language settings and discovered my standard language switched to Malayalam (granted, that is weird). I reset it and everything works fine.

Schermafbeelding 2017-12-08 om 09.18.17.png

I'll post how to change it in case someone else stumbles upon this thread with the same problem: open InDesign (but not a document) and go to your language settings (command T), set it to your preferred language (dutch in my case) and you're done.

Cheers!

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Community Expert ,
Dec 08, 2017 Dec 08, 2017

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No idea how ID ever managed to change your default settings on its own (did you recently upgrade from CC2017 to 2018?), but here is the underlying reason:

OpenType features are grouped primarily per script (different writing systems: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and so on). Only within each group of 'alphabets', features for separate languages may be defined.

What happens with this font is that it contains features for "Latin" only. Malayalam does not use the "Latin" writing system, and so InDesign tries to find features that apply to either "all" (properly called "DFLT") or this particular script. Which are not there, so you don't get any.

It happens to work again with your Dutch default because this does have the features defined in the "Latin" group, and the same is true, presumably, for all other European languages that use this particular alphabet.

A solution from the font creator's side would be to add all of the special features to all of the possible scripts/languages (or possibly to "DFLT" only), but ... there is no reason to! The font does not contain any special features for Malayalam, so as it is, the font "works as intended" – provided you indeed set the language correct!

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Explorer ,
Dec 08, 2017 Dec 08, 2017

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Oh that's interesting, thanks for clarifying.

To answer your question, it's been a while since I upgraded but the problem has been around a while, maybe since then I don't know. That may sound ignorant (and it probably is ) but since I work for a newspaper I often work in predefined documents and the setting is correct, and for making ads most times I set my own breaks instead of letting InDesign do it (which is how I could've noticed sooner). Mind you I did switch back to dutch a few times the past weeks, but since it happened so irregularly it took a while for the penny to drop.

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Community Expert ,
Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

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It also needs to be turned on in Advanced Type Preferences:

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New Here ,
Jun 24, 2020 Jun 24, 2020

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Not sure if anyone is still having problems with this issue, but here is a possible solution. I am using CC 2020 and it would not let me use certain glyphs in photoshop. I removed the OTF font file type and installed the TTF of the font I want. I restarted photoshop and it works now. Before some of the glyphs did not work, now all of them work. Not sure what the difference is between the fonts but it worked. Hope it helps! 

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New Here ,
Jan 30, 2022 Jan 30, 2022

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Thank you SO much! I couldnt work out what was happening but this has solved it. PDF with the font told me to use the OTF but TTF works perfectly. Must be a bug somewhere.

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New Here ,
Mar 14, 2022 Mar 14, 2022

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I was having a similar problem in Photoshop, unable to select basic glyphs for a font. I finally realized that 'Stylistic Alternates' was turned on in the character menu. When I turned it off, I was able to select glyphs as usual. Hopefully this helps someone waste less time on this than I did.

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Mar 14, 2022 Mar 14, 2022

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Here's where you can turn off 'Stylistic Alternates'

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