Hi
I’ve posted this as a bug report on Adobe’s website (I posted a similar bug report back on CS6 but got no reply), but I am also aware that I might just be doing something wrong. I’m hoping that some of the bigger brains on here can help me figure out if it’s just me.
I often work on books that include Arabic and Hebrew words and phrases in the middle of English text. They only way to get the Arabic ligatures to form is to use one of the World Ready composers. When I do that, though, the kerning around some English characters often—but not always—is affected. I have tried turning on and off various settings—justification settings, kashidas, etc.—and their effect seems to be random. Sometimes the changes fix the problem until the page redraws, sometimes the errant kerning is corrected in one location but shows up in another location, sometimes nothing happens at all. I’m can share two screen captures of a book that I have in production now with the word “economics” selected in each. In the shot with the World-Ready Paragraph Composer active, you can see extra kerning between the “e” and the “c.” In the shot with the WRPC deactivated, the word looks as it should.
Has anyone else seen this? Can anyone else reproduce it. Anyone have ideas what I might try to fix it? With a deadline looming, the only thing I can think to do is identify all of the lines with Arabic in them, break them into their own force-justifed paragraphs, and isolate the World-Ready Composer to just those lines and hope that the kerning issue doesn’t pop up in any of them. Obviously not an ideal solution.
Thanks for any help.
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