Font Support Arabic And English

[Lenora Rademacher]

Itdoes not look as it suppose to look like and also it adds some symbols that are not suppose to be there.

When I upload the same font file to other design tool (Pitch) it looks as it shown online of the font specimen page. What could be the problem here?

Hi, I've similar issue, same fonts are working in previous versions (Illustrator 2021) but 2022 can't read 90% of arabic fonts. It Shows the font and preview but when you select a font either its some boxes or just the same characters....

AXT (Arabic Xtension) fonts were created for QuarkXpress in the 1980s, they're bad enough to use in a publication as they're not searchable in a PDF. Adobe announced back in 2014 that they will stop supporting these fonts. I know AXT fonts are widely used in the Arab World because these fonts are bastards as no one owns them now.

i tried to create a template through Adobe Animate and export it to CasperCG, however, if i write in Arabic, nothing is shown, i can see the animation, but not the text inside, while when i try the English text, it works

There are two things to note here: 1st You need to make sure that the font you embeed in your template accually supports Arabic and 2nd: That you embedd also the arabic glyphs. Then it works like a charm.

My arabic templates are all copyright protected, so I should not give them out. But I can guide you a bit: If you right click in Animates library pane you can create a new Font. Then a dialog opens where you can select the font and style to embedd:

i urgently need for my studies arabic fonts support on my arch system.

since browsing arabic web sites and composing emails in arabic with mozilla is no problem, i suppose arabic fonts are already installed. but what i have to do that they work with other applications - especially with abiword and aterm?

i have no experience with arabic fonts, but if you have a font installed, that has arabic chars, you have then only to make sure, you can input arabic (in kde switch keyboard to some country that uses arabic) .... wait a min .. i have to google for more infos ...

i already googled without success - may be i used the wrong key words but the once solution i found was yast related and as far as i know from my suse time arabic fonts or chars are already enabled on suse

Just to confirm, but as someone who has had experience with displaying Arabic on Linux, the bitstream vera fonts have the necessary glyphs. The ms-ttf-fonts are also good (thini arial and times new roman).

I've never used abiword, but OpenOffice has always coped. With regards to terminals, I've not had any experience. I recall Suse 9.1 worked ok from Konsole, but I think it had utf-8 encoding enabled by default.

I have a small problem regarding fonts since I'm working on Arabic lessons. My problem is that when I view my work in the preview option it is neat and nice, but after I publish the lesson some letters are being misplaced or seems to be collided with the border. Is there some fonts you could recommend for me to get over this problem?

It solved my problem. I guess the problem was not using a Unicode font. Is there any other Unicode font that is supported in Storyline for Arabic text? Or is it a general concept for all Unicode fonts?

And if you're able to share a sample slide with our Support Engineers for testing, that would be gold! You can send it privately to our team here. They'll take a closer look, and will delete it after troubleshooting.

I did some testing, I disabled Geeza pro in Font Book, and automatically OS X made the next available Arabic font the default one. I disable that too and the next available one became the default one, and the fonts were listed alphabetically.

OK, so if I can somehow change the name of Tahoma to some something like AAArabicTahoma so that it becomes the first font that supports arabic I can disable Geeza Pro, and OS X will automatically start using this font.

Tahoma cannot in general be used for Arabic on a Mac, because it uses Windows opentype technology to connect the letters. I think only TextEdit and perhaps Mellel will display it properly. Other apps will not show the different shapes of Arabic characters in medial and final position. That requires the Mac aat technology you find in Geeza Pro and some other fonts.

Thanks Tom, I tested Tahoma in WriteRoom and you are right Tahoma is not recognized, only TextEdit seems to recognize this font. Another font that I like is Arial Unicode MS which works in WriteRoom and I just tested it by disabling Geeza and all the other Arabic fonts above it Arial unicode, and OS X is using it as the default font in Twitter, Stickies, spotlight, chrome, etc. which means its supported by Mac.

So, now I will just have to rename Arial Unicode MS into something like AAArial and that would do the trick. I checked out FontForge but its only offered as source and I am not really that experienced at compiling. FontLab, they probably have some Trial and since I only need to use it once I met get away with that, but which product is it?

Arial Unicode is the same technology as Tahoma and will not work in most apps. If you think it is working in WriteRoom it has simply substituted Geeza Pro or another Apple font instead. If you will make the text size very large you should be able to see that it is not Arial Unicode.

Ya its a simple job to change the font everytime I want to type in Arabic, but this is something that I will be doing every single time on each and every app that I use, so if there is a solution to change the default font, why not use it. And for some apps like Twitter or Chrome, I dont have the option to change the font, hence my only option is to change the default font.

By the way, I think I was wrong, I did not have my OS 7 machine running, but it looks like for me both Tahoma and Arial Unicode now display with connected letters in WriteRoom (though I would still recommend choosing an Apple font).

I was able to achieve what I wanted. A friend of mine had Fontlab studio, and I was able to Modify the Tahoma and Tahoma Bold fonts into AAATahoma and AAATahoma Bold. I had to rename the PostScript name, full name, family and a bunch of other names and now OS X recognises it as a totally different font and there is no conflict with the original Tahoma and Tahoma Bold fonts. I named the files to AAATahoma so that they become the first fonts that support Arabic, like I said earlier OS X resolves to the first font that supports Arabic when Geeza Pro is disabled, and it does that alphabetically.

I have tested it and I haven't had any issues, it works with Safari, Mail, Textedit Wordpress, chrome, twitter, Growl, Spotlight Finder, Dashboard, pretty much every app that I have tried so far.

I don't know if it is legal to modify the name of the fonts, but other than the name I haven't modified anything else, like the copyright information, the owner deisgner etc. and I am only using it for personal use.

Thanks for that info, you have found a trick that can be quite useful for people who want to do that in 10.7. I suspect the main apps which will still not work with Tahoma are Pages and the others in the iWork suite -- will have to test them.

As you know I was able to change the default font and everything has been working fine, however I have noticed that with the Twitter app, whenever there are lots of Arabic tweets to load, the fontd process in activity monitor jumps to 98% CPU for a few seconds and then goes down to 0%, it has also become a bit unresponsice and I am seeing the spinning ball of death more often. I am also using Yorufukurou, another twitter app and haven't had an issue with it either, seems like its only a problem with the way the official Twitter app works. When I reverted back to Geeza Pro as my default font, Twitter app became resposive again.

The only way to add text in Arabic, to a video, is to use an image editing program which supports Arabic fonts and create text images with transparent backgrounds ie png file format, and then add these to the project in MEP.

I think this is not a good way to solve this a problem , a many people would like to use Magix and to buy the orginal product , but this problem is a one reason they not go with the program , currently Im using Sony vagas and is suppport Arabic font , Sony vagas is my solution to do my job , but Im not buying Magix product to jump from program to other .. I need to do my work in one program.

As you are familiar with Vegas and it does the job, I can see no urgent reason to move to Movie Edit Pro or VPX. If your Vegas is an old version then upgrading to the latest version - Vegas Pro 14 - is an option.

Magix has trial versions of Movie Edit Pro or VPX available, you can try these and see if the Arabic language support is available - they do have limited functionality because they are trial versions however you will see if they do support the Arabic language. If you do please let us know the result.

The best and cheaper solution and you cgan use any video software not supporting arabic font is to use may be CorelDraw or simal software to create text and logo exporting in png format using atransparent background. The real solution is to use Sony Vegas now Magix Vegas that you can work with arabic font. Developping function to write text in arabic means to write from right to left, and each word can be use different position in sentence that means caps and welding words. A lot of work use Vegas or png logo as text.

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