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• • April 5, 2018 at 5:47 pm #102939
    Clark Kenyon

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    I’m working in Windows 10, CC 2018, and have taken over a book project from a designer who was working on a Mac. The book has several passages in the Farsi language. I have changed my App language from English (North American) to English Arabic (I think) and reloaded ID. I now have the right to left paragraph direction option. The previous designer was using a font called Baghdad for the Farsi, which apparently is a Mac font. Anyway, there was no useable version of it in the package I received. Is there a Farsi font in InDesign, or are there Farsi glyphs in the default font (Minion Pro)? When I try to apply Minion Pro to the Farsi text I get this warning: Missing Glyph protection has occurred, etc.” What’s that about? Should I look elsewhere for a Farsi font? If so, can someone recommend one, maybe something from Typekit?

  • April 5, 2018 at 9:32 pm #102941
    Aaron Troia

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    Hey Clark,

    Check out SIL’s fonts (https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=fontdownloads) they tend to be pretty good and my go-to place for CJK/Arabic/Hebrew/etc. languages. I found Amiri on Google Fonts that might work (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Amiri) or Noto Sans has an Arabic font (https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-arab) thought I could not find a specific Farsi Noto font. I’m not sure if there are any in Typekit but I tend to just go to SIL first for any different languages that I might need. Google Fonts is ok, but it just depends on what you’re needing.

    Anyway, I hope that helps,

    Aaron

  • April 5, 2018 at 10:31 pm #102943
    Clark Kenyon

    Participant

    Thanks, I’ll check them out.

  • April 9, 2018 at 2:28 am #102972
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    If you get any success with nastaliq-style fonts, I’d be interested in the details.
    Thanks, Chris.

  • April 11, 2018 at 9:13 am #103060
    pnamajck

    Member

    might find some relevant info with links at this url:
    https://org.uib.no/smi/ksv/ArabicFonts.html
    https://org.uib.no/smi/ksv/arabicfontsc.html

    as with any project, make sure the pdf-files and soft/hard-proofs respect those fonts accurately.

  • April 13, 2018 at 11:58 am #103073
    Clark Kenyon

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    I wish I hadn’t gotten involved in this project. When I changed my app language to English Arabic my default installation of ID (2018) got overwritten. All my settings, my workspaces, my document presets got wiped out. Now when I want to start a new project in English everything is ass backwards. Even though I’ve changed the Basic Paragraph to left to right paragraph direction, when I set up a new document with facing pages, the first page starts on the left instead of the right and my text threading is backwards. I don’t see a setting in the preferences to change this. I’ve tried changing the text direction on the control panel from right to left to left to right while no document is open, but that won’t fix the text threading of my new documents. I’ve been resorting to using an older installation of ID (2017) for new projects, but I can’t open any of my documents done in CC 2018 with 2017.

  • April 16, 2018 at 7:27 am #103093
    pnamajck

    Member

    this is just a thought … i believe adobe allows for two users/computers on one license. create a second user on your computer … one user for farsi-projects (right-left) … one user for traditional (left-right) workload.

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