While trying to modify some text in Motion I've come across the fact that text won't display with ligatures by default.
However, the usual method of opening the type panel and enabling them doesn't seem to be producing results so I'm wondering, am I missing something and do I have to render the type out in something else (illustrator/photoshop) or is there some method of doing it natively and thus preserving editing ability?
I recall a bug in OpenType introduced in 10.6.7 - I think there's a fix. Check out this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2793054?answerId=13366290022#13366290022
Does that help?
Patrick
As far as I can tell it's not the same problem, though I could be wrong. I've apparently already got the Snow Leopard font fix that was issued as a software update but just for the sake of completeness I'll try the linked file from 10.6.6.
As an example of what i'm trying to do, I wanted to get the fl ligature and upper case 1 from the default install of Hoefler text working in a standard text box in motion, using the text panel and the ‘Typography....’ sub menu.
*Edit* Indeed it seems to have changed nothing, ligatures are fine outside of motion but in it are doing nothing. Is this a feature it lacks perhaps? That seems like a strange thing to overlook.
Odd, I recall using ligatures in the past, but maybe that was prior to Motion 4 - when they introduced the RTF file handling, etc....
If you type what you want in -say- Text Edit, then copy and paste that into Motion's text box, doe that work?
Patrick
It loses all formatting when pasting into Motion, it's as if it's simply ignoring any formatting that's gone in. As an example here are identical test text posts, the first in textedit and the second copy pasted into Motion. I'm not particularly concerned with the archaic swatches but the uppercase numerals and the fi certainly do matter.
On further inspection in the console, after encountering the exact same problem on another machine, I notice that Motion seems to be generating a lot of log entries with the string:
11/05/2011 15:34:59 Motion[551] CGContextSetFontSize: invalid context 0x0
11/05/2011 15:34:59 Motion[551] CGContextGetShouldSmoothFonts: invalid context 0x0
etc.
Possibly related I wonder?
Opentype fonts/ligatures
