I am hoping this is something simple and I have gone through the forums and can't find anyone else with a simillar problem.
I can't get corel draw x6 to create a "FF" as in Coffee. It happens in most fonts and as soon as you type ff they disappear from view and don't print. I can go into x5 and type it then copy and paste it into x6 as graphic text and it works fine. The only way I have been able to over come it is to put another charachter inbetween the f's then make it tiny and no colour and there you go I can create Coffee, Geoff, Affable and so on. Obviously this isn't ideal.
I have used corel since the early days and really like it and can use it pretty well but this one is just stumping me.
Any suggestions?
This is a new feature in X6, which for the first time supports ligatures. Information about them is here in the help file.
It does say "Some OpenType fonts may appear to support features that are unsupported." so it looks as if you may have found such a font.
Which font(s) are you using?
harryLondon said:This is a new feature in X6, which for the first time supports ligatures
Harry is right. Select your text object and turn off the ligature button in the character docker. That should fix your problem.
I'd like to verify what is going on however because what you see is very unusual. What font are you using?
FosterCoburn said:I suspected the fonts failing were much older fonts
Wait, that is an interesting quote.
Perhpas the font your are using lie about supporting the legacy ligatures. There is an easy test for this.
copy the following character (this is only 1 character, not 2)
ff
and paste it after typeing "co" in the font that doesn't work to create "coff" and then type "ee". resulting in "coffee".
If pasting 'ff' results in a blanck space : that font is the problem
If pasting 'ff' works but changes the font for that character : then perhaps DRAW as an issue. See if you then can select the whole text object and reapply it the font. If 'ff' dissapear again, then DRAW definitaly has an issue with our legacy ligature support.
I just realized, I was replying to a very old post.
I had an huge discussion through email about this with another user and we never could figure out what was wrong with her system too. Then, the case went cold.
If someone have this problem again, please reply to this post.
Claude
I tried that.
Claude Peloquin said:If pasting 'ff' results in a blanck space : that font is the problem
Results :- I started with 'Co' with defalut Arial font- Pasted the copied ff character and continued typing 'ee' to make it a full word 'Coffee'- When pasted the font for 'ff' changed to Sakkal Majjala and 'ee' was again applied with Arial.- Selected all Text and changed to Arial. Got a rectangle for the ff character- Changing the font for entire word to Sakkal Majjala gave perfect results.
I am on Win 8 Pro 64Bit with latest bbuild
Anand,
What you are describing is the expected behavior since Arial does not have the 'ff' character, Draw detects that and fallback to another font that does and then from that point on, it uses that new font.
Then if you force Arial on it, you get the rectangle because Arial doesn not have this character.
Hello Claude
I was talking to you about this on a thread i started last week http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/p/38957/185059.aspx#185059
I am using Windows Vista & it happens on many different texts
Pete