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?
Same problem here. Tried to turn the button off. I'm using Copperplate Gothic Bold. Frustrating..... Need help
Those who have this problem still, are you using Windows XP?
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.