Hi again.

I thought I could get around the "fi" problem by doing a find and
replace. In PgS4.0 r5 the find/replace requester has a neat pair of
arrows at the end that bring up the character set in which I found the
"fi" character. The requester inserted a "\" followed by the correct ^D
code for that character, into it's "find" string, but it would never
actually find the offending code.

Hello Peter

On 24-May-00, you wrote:

> Hi again.

> I thought I could get around the "fi" problem by doing a find and
> replace. In PgS4.0 r5 the find/replace requester has a neat pair of
> arrows at the end that bring up the character set in which I found the
> "fi" character. The requester inserted a "\" followed by the correct ^D
> code for that character, into it's "find" string, but it would never
> actually find the offending code.

This problem can be fixed two ways. The temporary fix is to simply highlight
the problematic text, pull down the text/kerning menu and disable kerning. All
the missing "fi" and "fl" will magically reappear. The second and more
convenient way is to go to the PgS prefs and find type/attributes/kerning to
disable it. This had been a problem with certain fonts with incorrectly set
kerning for some time. Deron added the kerning option to the prefs in just the
recent version of PgS.

Regards

Thanks Jon:

Kerning didn't fix it, but ligature did. Works like a charm.

Peter Martin

Jon Peterson wrote:
>
> Hello Peter
>
> On 24-May-00, you wrote:
>
> > Hi again.
>
> > I thought I could get around the "fi" problem by doing a find and
> > replace. In PgS4.0 r5 the find/replace requester has a neat pair of
> > arrows at the end that bring up the character set in which I found the
> > "fi" character. The requester inserted a "\" followed by the correct ^D
> > code for that character, into it's "find" string, but it would never
> > actually find the offending code.
>
> This problem can be fixed two ways. The temporary fix is to simply highlight
> the problematic text, pull down the text/kerning menu and disable kerning. All
> the missing "fi" and "fl" will magically reappear. The second and more
> convenient way is to go to the PgS prefs and find type/attributes/kerning to
> disable it. This had been a problem with certain fonts with incorrectly set
> kerning for some time. Deron added the kerning option to the prefs in just the
> recent version of PgS.

On 24-May-00, Peter Martin wrote:
> Thanks Jon:
>
> Kerning didn't fix it, but ligature did. Works like a charm.

Well, yes, but surely the PDF format should be able to support
ligatures?

I suppose it's a problem with font encoding.

Regards
--
Don Cox
doncox@enterprise.net