airwhale Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Hi guys! I just purchased a nice font family today, but found that the (very cool) discretionary ligatures are NOT available in the glyph browser? There is a tick-box there, but greyed out. As is "Alternates / Slashed zero" for instance, another feature I know the fonts have. I know the glyphs are present in the font file, because I can view them in my font manager and more importantly, use them in Photoshop (here they are categorized under "Discretionary ligatures" when filtering in the drop-down). Anyone know if this can be caused by a format issue with the fonts, a bug or non-supported feature in Designer or anything else funky? (I have other typefaces where I can access a huge extra set of glyphs, for instance ITC AvantGarde Gothic, but here they are categorized as "Private use area".) For now, I exported the text as a PNG from Photoshop and placed in Designer, but that sure is an ugly workaround... Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 1 hour ago, airwhale said: Anyone know if this can be caused by a format issue with the fonts, a bug or non-supported feature in Designer or anything else funky? It’s difficult to offer helpful advice without knowing which particular font family you’re trying to use. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airwhale Posted September 2, 2019 Author Share Posted September 2, 2019 23 minutes ago, Alfred said: It’s difficult to offer helpful advice without knowing which particular font family you’re trying to use. Ah, right. Sorry about that. I'm experiencing this with Montreux Grotesk from ROHH. Attached image that displays the glyphs in question. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 If the feature depends on what are called chaining context lookups, that may be why there is a failure to work. Without a font to look at, I wouldn't know for certain. I believe Serif knows this is broken. Maybe @Dave Harris can confirm? airwhale 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catlover Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Re: Glyph Browser : It looks greyed-out, but it's not. Call up the font, place your cursor, pick the ligature you want and double-click it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airwhale Posted September 2, 2019 Author Share Posted September 2, 2019 UPDATE: after talking with the font designer, we did identify one case of user error. Text needs to be set in UPPER CASE only. Mine was written in lower case, the switched to upper (or possibly small-caps) in the "Typography" panel. Once that was corrected, the "contextual alternates" radio button was available for selection. Once selected, it mostly worked, but a few of the glyps was still not available. (I have not tested them all.) Also, none of them show up in the glyph panel either. Closer, but I'm not lighting that cigar just yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airwhale Posted October 9, 2019 Author Share Posted October 9, 2019 So, I'm back and need to borrow your hat @MikeW… Silly mistake on my part - in the Glyph Browser, there is a "hamburger-menu" that I had overlooked or forgotten about. Choosing the "Unicode plus Alternates" option instead of "Unicode" fixed the display issue entirely. As it would... (I'm telling myself an update changed that selection, it's just easier that way.) Sorry to mistake this feature for a bug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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