I cannot get OpenType liga ligatures to work in the test window.
The font works well with fi fl and da ligatures. I have installed the font in PagePlus X5 and the font is good.
Is there a checkbox somewhere that I need to switch on or that I have turned off by mistake?
Any ideas please?
William Overington
21 May 2013
The font test dialog uses a common Windows control that doesn’t support all OpenType layout features. Fortunately the web font test page (CTRL-F5) has way more support (depending on your browser). So let us know your results.
Thank you Erwin for your reply.
I usually use the Firefox browser on this Windows xp computer.
I tried CTRL F5 in FontCreator and Internet Explorer started up. The test of the ligatures did not work.
However, there is a message about needing Internet Explorer 10 and I checked and found that Internet Explorer on this computer is at version 8.
The control panel tells me that Internet Explorer is not the default browser, so I do not know why Internet Explorer started up. Is that due to a request from High-Logic or could I change the browser that comes up to Firefox?
Is there somewhere on the computer where I can make Firefox the default browser?
Anyway, as I now know from your response that the problem is not that I have got something set up wrongly in FontCreator 7, I can use PagePlus X5 to test the OpenType features by generating the font, installing it temporarily by double-clicking on it in Windows Explorer and then opening PagePlus X5 and testing.
William
FontCreator just tell Windows to show the web font test page, so I don’t know why fails to open in your default browser.
You should be able to open the test page in FireFox. You could easily copy and paste the url from IE8 to FireFox. The url will look like this one:
C:\Users\EDenissen\AppData\Local\Temp\FC37097.html
FireFox will automatically translate it into its preferred format:
file:///C:/Users/YourName/AppData/Local/Temp/FC37097.html
I have no problem testing standard ligatures in FontCreator, and not just the usual Alphabetic Presentation Forms. I suspect that you need to enable the custom script in the font export settings. If that’s not it, attach your project file here, and we can test it for you.
Where is there an option to enable/disable the custom script?
Set “Include OpenType Features” to “Custom Script” within the “Font Export Settings” dialog. You can reach it through the main menu. File → Export → Export Settings.
Also see the manual:
http://www.high-logic.com/fontcreator/manual7/exportafont.html
Thanks, Erwin. I hadn’t seen that because I’ve been clicking the little black triangle next to the ‘Export’ icon on the Standard toolbar, and there’s no ‘Export Settings’ option on the dropdown list. (There’s also no hintline text for the export options, on either the toolbar or the File menu.)
It might help to have an “Export Settings” item on that menu.
“Export All” is also ambiguous — I thought it would export all open projects, but it doesn’t, it just exports both OTF/TTF and WOFF for the current project.
So, “Export Both” would be more descriptive until more font export options are added.