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Barcode-font 2of5.ttf X InDesign

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Jun 11, 2024 Jun 11, 2024

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The Font 2of5.ttf does not work in InDesign, but it work in Illustrator. How can this be. And how can I fix the problem in InDesign?

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Jun 11, 2024 Jun 11, 2024

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Jun 12, 2024 Jun 12, 2024

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TTF-Fonts will be supported, so that post about at least Type1-Fonts does not help

 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/font-support/m-p/12051424#M430049

On behalf of Adobe, yes, support for TrueType fonts will continue for the indefinite future. As @John Mensinger explains, OpenType, both the CFF and the TTF flavours, are effectively extensions of the original TrueType format in terms of file format.

(Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021))

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Jun 12, 2024 Jun 12, 2024

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I installed the font - and from a another source too

It shows in the menu.

But characters don't show.

 

I've no other explanation - I've tried a lot of things.

 

 

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https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end-of-support.html

 

 

If it woks in Illustrator
Do it in Illustrator - and then save it to .ai file - then place it in InDesign?

Sorry I don't really have an answer for you.

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Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

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Hello Eugene,

 

this font only has Ligatures as characteres (pairs of digits). But inDesign wont recognize them as Ligatures. 

It works in Illutrator, but i need it in InDesign in Datamerging to generate individual codes on vouchers. It has to be this font, because the codes must be readable with our cash register system.

 

So maybe you have an idea how to get indesign to show ligatures?

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Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

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I looked to see if it was ligatures - I think I did anyway.

 

I can't get the font to work in InDesign at all.

 

Perhaps 

@rob day @Peter Kahrel 

Might have ideas?

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Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

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Hi @beatrix_swh_32049 , Did you check InDesign’s Glyph panel? I can’t check with CC2024 at the moment, but here is CC2021’s Glyph panel, where I can set glyphs and see the Unicodes:

 

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Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

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Thank you for your helbp! Looks nearly same in CC2024 Glyphs Panel. But I can't change anything. Is there a way that InDesign recognizes that two digit are one ligature?

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Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

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This is what I get in CC2024—I can access the font’s glyphs from the keyboard via numbers, or I can double-click a glyph in the panel:

 

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Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

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Also, looks like you have to have Ligatures on for the insertion point to use the keyboard. Here I’m typing the GID number 33:

 

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Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

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Actually, I’m not sure how the keyboard mapping is working—I’m getting inconsistent results.

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Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

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Looks like the glyph panel is ordered from 00 to 99?

 

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Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

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Got the clicking the glyph to work sometimes but couldn't get it to work again.

 

I converted the font to another font type also, tried a few, and then it loses the mapping of the characters.

 

It's so strange it works fine in illustrator.

 

 

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Make sure you have Ligatures on for the insertion point, then type the ligature pairs which are pairs of numbers 01, 02, 03, ... 98, 99. Also from the Glyph panel it’s a double, not single-click, to insert the glyph.

 

I don’t set a lot of type in Illustrator, but the Ligature setting is in the Open Type not the Character panel—Standard Ligatures. Looks like Standard Ligatures is on by default, if I uncheck it the barcode glyphs dissappear.

 

Seems to be the same in InDesign. For the 2of5 font—there are 100 number ligature pairs, plus 2 glyps mapped to ; & :

 

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Ligatures unchecked:

 

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