Make Ligatures OFF by default and have a checkbox in Preferences > Type
Please make it possible to turn off all ligatures within the Preferences > Type dialog box, then make it Off by Default.
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Philip Byrne
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Ligatures are a problem when generating accessible PDFs: they all result in a 'Character Encoding - Failed' error. We need a universal preference to turn them off by default.
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K-O
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Hi Adobe dev team.
I struggle to understand many of the AI defaults.
Its somehow as if the team doesnt know their users needs. Ligatures and hyphenation should be off, magic wand tolerance should be 0, HSB default sliders needed etc.
Years of open requests that are so easy to fix. No replies from the team after users take time to write detailed descriptions of the issues. The collective energy customers put into making the requests is greater than it would take one dev to fix them. And the fixes are obvious to anyone using the product.
Whats going on behind the scenes over there?
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Mark Fogarty
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Totally agree. This should never have been defaulted as ON. Adobe please change this.
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AJ E.
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Agreed! I don't know when this happened, but I all of a sudden started getting character encoding errors in accessibility checking and found ligatures had somehow become active by default in Illustrator. I have to remember now to select all of the text, unclick the ligatures button and then save again when I am exporting to PDF for the web. Annoying!
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Anonymous
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Hate having to turn off ligatures every time I do a new packaging artwork - all my FI letters turning into a Glyph!
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Mamoon Tayih
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+1 I have been having trouble with certain fonts that have a glitch where the Ligatures option is disabled even though the font carries Ligature glyphs. Would like to have the default to be off for the ligatures also!