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October 31, 2011 at 4:07 pm #60959
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quinyu, you can work around this problem by switching to the World-Ready Composer. The Roman Composer adds a space glyph for ligatures so glyph to character mappings are one to one.

There's no option in the User Interface for switching to the WRC, so you'll have to do it via scritping. So do these steps:

1. In InDesign, select the text

2. Launch the ExtendScript Toolkit app

3. In ESTK, select “Adobe InDesign CS5.5 (7.5)” from the combobox

4. Copy and paste in ESTK this line of code: app.selection[0].composer = 'Adobe World-Ready Single-line Composer';

5. Click on the play button.

You can go back to the Roman composer via the UI through the flyout menu in the Paragraph panel.

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