"fi" changes into "?" when typing in InDesign. NOT A PDF ISSUE

[kathys6314949]

I'm not having a problem with font changing when converting to PDF - I can find that answer. My "fi" changes into a "?" right when I type it in InDesign. It is only one font that is doing this, but it my agency's signature font, so I really need to work this out. Any suggestions?

[Jongware · Accepted solution]

It's a default ligature combination. Apparently the font is telling InDesign "hey I have this character!" … and it's lying.

Turn off ligatures to fix it.

As this is an important font for your firm, you could contact your font provider and let them know of this issue. Either the font should not suggest it contains an "fi" character (so InDesign would not try to replace "fi" with this), or -- preferably, of course! -- that character should be added to the font.

[Eugene Tyson]

What font is it?

Check the open type features.

Easily access special typographic characters |

You can also go to the Type>View Glyphs to see what's going on a bit more closely.

[kathys6314949]

Coves

[MW Design]

Like mentioned above, contact the font author via his web site.

There are the unicode slots for the fi/fl ligatures but both slots have a question mark in them. Evidently, even though there is no OT Feature code, ID is faking it because those two unicode slots are both present and have something drawn in them.

Mike

[kathys6314949]

Ligatures worked! THANK YOU!!!