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?
Hi Harry & Claude
Thanks for the help that sorted it straight away.
It was happening with the majority of fonts, Arial was OK but just standard - not black, narrow etc also some random others but Avantgarde dit it.
Actually, I am trying it now with the ligature turned back on and I am struggling to find more than a couple that it wouldn't do it on.
It's odd as it only happened with FF and no other double letters, which is a bit awkward when you are doing a menu board for a coffee shop.
Anyway thanks for the help and well done with the fast reply
Thanks
Mark
Mark Webster said:Actually, I am trying it now with the ligature turned back on and I am struggling to find more than a couple that it wouldn't do it on.
By that, do you mean that all fonts exhibit the issue?
Mark Webster said:it only happened with FF and no other double letters
ff is special because it has an "old" ligature which has an unicode code point : ff 0xFB00.
CorelDRAW does special processing on old fonts that do not support OpenType ligatures but that do expose the legacy ligatures like that.
I could swear that I ran into this problem on the forums before and I believed the issue was fixed but now I can't find my posts nor my fix!
I'll ask QA to log a defect against it so that I look into it again.
I really need to know if those having this problem are running XP : this is very important information.
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.