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Scuba_Scott
Scuba_Scott
Participant
January 22, 2019
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Thai font issues (Accent marks)

  • January 22, 2019
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I need to translate a video to Thai from English (among many other languages).  I get documents from the translator in Microsoft Word, in "Angsana New" and the Thai font looks great (meaning, any accents that are stacked above a character are correct).  However, when pasted into Adobe After Effects, the accents get "crushed down". 

Here is an example:

CORRECT THAI

INCORRECT THAI

Any assistance would be great!

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    Correct answer bengilbey

    I had a similar issue with inDesign using Adobe Thai. If you change the paragraph settings to World Ready Single Line (or paragraph) composer, the accents align in the correct place.

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    Rebecca17922634j4mv
    Participant
    October 18, 2023

    None of these are working for me - My font remains squished down 

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      rpaulseymour
      Known Participant
      December 13, 2023

      Me too. Years later, this is still an issue. What do we pay for? Could care less about AI if I simply can't cut and paste Thai text for our CEO. Also, the "Middle Easter & South Asian" composers are missing from the paragraphs menu as shown here - https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/asian-scripts.html - 🙄

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      bengilbeyCorrect answer
      Participant
      January 24, 2021

      I had a similar issue with inDesign using Adobe Thai. If you change the paragraph settings to World Ready Single Line (or paragraph) composer, the accents align in the correct place.

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        Megan25795166v80t
        Participant
        May 25, 2023

        This worked for me. Thank you!

        megi37177599
        megi37177599
        Participant
        February 21, 2019

        Go to preference>type>text engine set to south Asian and Middle Eastern option

        Then while selecting the text go to paragraph panel go to its options and reset it. This should work

        Szalam
        Community Expert
        SzalamCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        February 22, 2019

        You may need to restart AE after making these changes to make it work properly.

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        TrendyWhistle
        Participating Frequently
        February 6, 2020

        I'm a year late, but I was having the same issue and this didn't help. Instead, I switched my tracking from Optical Allignment to Metrics (I prefer using Optical most of the time for english) and it fixed everything!

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