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Please add an option to turn on or off ligatures into the various text edit controls. Currently:
The caption tool has ligatures turned on when importing a file and reportedly ligatures off if entering new text. No option to toggle.
The new title tools has ligatures turned on and no option to toggle.
The Legacy Title tool has ligatures turned off and no way option to toggle.
The use of ligatures or not as desired in a consistent way requires workarounds particularly when it comes to captions, diminishing the usability of the caption feature.

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  • Tom Jenkinson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Despite turning off ligatures in Preferences in the latest PP 2021 V15 update, there is still a ligature between the 'f' and the 'i' in difficult.

    Any idea why?

    This isn't present on the font when using legacy titles in previous versions.
    (Annoying way I have to create subtitles for a number of clients.)

  • karl benitez commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Alex Elkins... YOU BEUATIFUL GENIUS! Thank you for finding this.

    To expand on this, go to Edit > Preferences > Graphics.
    Under Text Engine select "South Asian and Middle Eastern"
    Under Text Styling, remove the checkmark next to "Ligatures"
    Now this will be your default for all Essential Graphics text boxes going forward. I'm curious if changing the Text Engine from "European and East Asian" will weirdly affect something else with text in Essential Graphics, hopefully not...

    I haven't poked around too much with the settings lately but this seems like a new thing that just became available via the Adobe CC updates. FYI, my current PrePro version is v14.0 (Build 52)

  • Alex Elkins commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I've just found the answer!

    In the essential graphics panel, click the little spanner icon above where you choose your typeface. A window opens with a checkbox for ligatures. Weirdly it appears to have no effect if you have 'European and East Asian' selected as your text engine, but if you select 'South Asian and Middle Eastern' the ligatures checkbox works. I've tested this on a number of fonts that use ligatures in the word 'Office' and it seems to work well.

  • Jeff M commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Ran into this on a video edit and was convinced I HAD to be able to edit this in the app. Nope. Totally ridiculous that this is an issue still. Please fix!

  • R. Neil Haugen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is so needed! Bluntly, text design and use is getting more and more sophisticated and detailed, and for brand identity & such this is an absolute requirement.

  • Randall Harp commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why are there not 1000 votes on this?? Being able to create titles in PP is worthless if you have to create titles in other applications in order prevent ligatures to maintain branding guidelines.

  • Matthew Talesfore commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Come on Adobe why is this still an issue? Every other CC app has this control.
    If its too much to ask then save ligatures for books and turn it off by default. Ligatures rarely look good on screen, if ever. Maybe make it a preference...

  • Geoff Fitzpatrick commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please. I've written corporate style guidelines which state all ligatures should be turned off, yet I can't do it myself in video captions. Bit embarrassing to say the least.

  • John Myers commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    PLEASE add this for the love of all that is holy. I cannot type out the word "film" without it automatically making a ligature from 'f' and 'i'. It's maddening and such a seemingly simple fix. GIVE US A CHECKBOX.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be extremely beneficial, as my company's official typeface is very difficult to use in Premiere because of this problem.

  • Jason Tighe commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Need this ... Our corporate font is wrecked by the new essential graphics panel. Forced to the legacy titler.

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