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Anonymous
May 5, 2023
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How to Resolve Incorrect Gujarati Ligature Display in InDesign

  • May 5, 2023
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No matter what I do I cannot get Gujarati text to display correctly in InDesign. There are a certain group of ligatures that simply will not display when using Noto Sans Gujarati or Nirmala. 

 

The correct characters appear in the Type > Glyphs panel, but when I insert the glyph the ligature is split incorrectly. For example, the character for the syllable "pra" પ્ર (0AAA + 0ACD + 0AB0) is being displayed as if the last two Unicode elements were flipped પર્ (0AAA, then 0AB0 + 0ACD).

 

Adobe World Ready Composer has been run (which does what it is supposed to do for 95% of the ligatures), the text has been set to Gujarati and I've run the indic preferences script. I have scrubbed preferences and reinstalled InDesign. I have deleted all the fonts and installed just one single font weight in case there was some kind of conflict. There are no fonts in the InDesign projects 'Fonts' folder.

 

This problem does not happen in Photoshop or Illustrator, which display the text as expected.

 

I'm on InDesign 18.2.1 x64 on Windows 11.

 

Thank you for any help you can give!

 

 

 

 

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    Correct answer

    Just updating to the 2025 version of InDesign fixed it for me.

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    Priyal31152583i06f
    Participant
    October 7, 2024

    Hi! Were you able to solve this? I'm facing similar issue right now!

    Abhishek Rao
    Community Manager
    Abhishek RaoCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    October 7, 2024

    Hello @29751135,

     

    I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with certain Gujarati ligatures in InDesign—this must be quite frustrating, especially when it works fine in Photoshop and Illustrator.

     

    Could you please confirm the version of InDesign you're using and share the details of your operating system? Also, does this issue occur only in a specific file, or is it happening across all your InDesign files?

     

    If possible, could you provide a screen recording of the issue? This will help us better understand what’s happening and find a solution for you.

     

    Thanks for your patience, and we’ll do our best to assist you!

     

    Best,  
    Abhishek Rao

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    Anonymous
    January 21, 2025

    Hi Abishek, I have updated to version 20.1 x64 and it seems to have solved the issue for me. Thank you.

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