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Thread ID: 110837 2010-07-03 09:21:00 What programs allow you to use ligatures Morgenmuffel (187) Press F1
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1115574 2010-07-03 09:21:00 I have recently got a font that has ligatures, unfortunately my very ancient version of Fireworks (MX) doesn't support ligatures, and as I would like to play with ligatures, i would like to find a preferably free program that allows me to use them

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Morgenmuffel (187)
1115575 2010-07-03 12:14:00 Probably need a vector drawing program like the free Inkscape or Google Sketchup kahawai chaser (3545)
1115576 2010-07-04 03:26:00 Well apparently Notepad on Vista allows opentype ligatures to work, BUT office 2007 doesn't, neither does anything else on this machine, bah humbug Morgenmuffel (187)
1115577 2010-07-04 04:05:00 Ok heres a demo (nigel.geek.nz)so you can see what i mean, basically it is opentype ligature support that i need as it does on the fly replacement of certain pairs or trios with specific ligatures, basically to make it look more polished, there are loads of little differences between the two samples you see on that demo page, if you look at the last letter of each word, they are different in each sample.

Both samples used the exact same font, just one supports automatic ligature replacement thingies
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