P: Arabic text issue

Hi David,
For Hebrew fonts you can go to http://freefonts.co.il/ - these are free Hebrew fonts which are not OS fonts and you can make a list out of them and test them.
In addition, there is a known company in Israel that makes digital photo books. When installing its software, it also installs plenty of Hebrew fonts - BN font family.
https://www.lupa.co.il/LandingPage/chrome-install.aspx
After installing it, you can uninstall it, but it will leave the BN fonts family in your fonts directory.

Now, regarding Adobe, they insisted on closing the case, although it hasn't been fixed yet. Do you know if a fix for that issue will arrive in the next delivery?

Thanks for all you help,
Maya 

Howdy!

When you run into text being displayed as a series of boxes, that means that the font doesn't include those specific glyphs (characters).  The boxes are "missing glyph symbols," colloquially referred to as "tofu boxes."  If you change fonts, things should work.

If you have a list of commonly used Persian fonts, would you be willing to share?

Thanks,
David

MarHabtayn ya Ghasem,

I saw your post in the other thread and I wanted to respond to you.

I understand this bug came at a really bad time for you.  It blindsided us too.  For what it's worth, we're actively working on a solution.  Hopefully, it will be available soon.  Sorry for the headache this is creating for you.

In the meanwhile, as I've mentioned elsewhere, this bug only impacts a subset of fonts.  Of the fonts which ship with the OSes are almost all fine, such as Myriad Arabic or Geeza Pro or Simplified Arabic or Arabic Typesetting.  We are aware of some incompatibilities with a few of Apple's AAT fonts, but that's been the same way for at least ten years.

To prevent this in the future and because it's good for us to know, what are common fonts in your work in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, or Hebrew?  I'd like to build a list of the  common ones so that we can explicitly test these in the future.

Shukran,
David

Hi there

In latest version(20.2.0) Im trying to type some arabic text (With Casablanca font and many of other fonts); In world ready mode it dosent work! Jast shows [][][][][][][] in stead words!
In Latin and East Asia layout i can see Arabic words but they displayed as English words (د ا دع ت) and not as Arabic words (تعداد)!

Help me Plz!

With Regards, Ghasem

Hi Ofir,
Agree with you and hopefully in the next delivery they will fix it. For the meantime you can downgrade your PS to previous version like 21.1.3 or even work with PS 2019. (this is what I've been doing for works with Hebrew text)

same problem
this big bag i cant working

Same problem!

same problem 

i have this problem with Persian  fonts and show some of my fonts as square.
but some Persian fonts are ok

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Hello David, I am experiencing the same. Below is a screen shot of a very popular "titr" font used for headlines on Windows 10 (Photoshop 20.2 -- I have been using this font with Photoshop since 2005 and it still works just fine with other Windows 10 apps.