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Aug 3, 2024, 1:40:34 AM8/3/24

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ugly Arabic font in websites that i visit it using Linux compare to windows. i tried to change the Arabic font in my browser, but that does not effect the Arabic font on the websites that i visit it, it only affects the font of the browser(font of menu list, font of settings etc.).
there are ways to change Arabic font in websites that i visit it?

I checked Firefox fonts settings and there's an option that allows websites to choose their own font instead of your chosen one, check your font settings deeper and see certain options. Do some changes to see if disabling certain options like this one that I just told does the trick, but remember the actual configuration so that if you make a mistake there you go back to the default font.

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.

I primarily use English and I know how to change default English fonts in Gnome Tweaks. However I also read and type and Arabic from time to time, and I'm trying to find a way to choose the default font for Arabic text, as I really don't like the default Arabic font that is used, but I'm not sure how to change it. Gnome Tweaks only lists options for English.

Not. At least not the way I imagine what you want.
Iffff your preferred arabic font doesn't contain latin letters or your preferred latin font doesn't contain arabic ones, you can configure fontconfig to use one as fallback for the other. Otherwise this isn't going to work (font selection by utf-8 range is afaiu not possible)

If you have gnome tweaks already installed you may edit the css file: sudo nano /usr/share-gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css.
if you scroll down to font-family you can replace the offered fonts with your choice. Download the ttf font noto nashk arabic from its website arabicfont.net and install it in /usr/share /fonts.
This may help you but there's no quarantee. If you run into trouble doing this there is plenty of gnome experts to assist you

First, you're describing how to switch the font for gnome-shell theme, which has nothing to do with the issue in first post. Second, there haven't been /usr/share-gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css since gnome 3.12 or so.
Third, I don't know who the "gnome experts" you are talking about are, but if you're going to (mis)guide people, you should at least be prepared to assist with your own instructions, and not leave that to others.

Arabic fonts are unfortunately not relative to Latin fonts in size; when choosing a specific font size, then Latin fonts are definitively much larger. When regular browsers set a browser font which is readable in English, will be too small to read in Arabic even if font size is chosen same. It would be awesome if brave could automatically detect arabic fonts and resize them to be relative to latin fonts.

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.

Just I would like to keep notice also that Magix Edite pro14 was support for Arabic text , I used on 2008 but the next generation of Magix that it wasn't , howover I thinks the best are your advised .. Many thanks