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Adobe Illustrator 2020 v24.1.2.408 and Adobe Photoshop 2020 v21.1.2 Issue with axt (arabic) font

  • May 9, 2020
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Whenever I'm typing an arabic text with continuation of numbers, it works fine but when I just take another line with number only it get changes to boxes. On Windows Please help me to find out a solution to this problem. I'll be very greatful. Thank you.

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Correct answer Zaid Al Hilali

Adobe stopped supporting AXT fonts back in May 2012 when adobe released its Creative Suite 6. The AXT fonts were and are still meant to work with QuarkXpress as an Arabic Extension.

You should look for other fonts such as OpenType fonts that are fully supported in Adobe and Microsoft applications. Many axt users don't know that these axt fonts are poorly developed in a sense that when you export/save to PDF, your PDF is not searchable even though the text is live.

 

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Zaid Al Hilali
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Zaid Al HilaliCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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May 27, 2020

Adobe stopped supporting AXT fonts back in May 2012 when adobe released its Creative Suite 6. The AXT fonts were and are still meant to work with QuarkXpress as an Arabic Extension.

You should look for other fonts such as OpenType fonts that are fully supported in Adobe and Microsoft applications. Many axt users don't know that these axt fonts are poorly developed in a sense that when you export/save to PDF, your PDF is not searchable even though the text is live.

 

Shola33650878ussw
Shola33650878ussw
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January 18, 2024

Poorly developed or not, the bottom line is that they are good and okay to use. Any smart designer with any desktop publication knowledge should know that writing any PDF file with live fonts in it is a very silly and risky idea. The best way is always to convert them to path before saving as PDF files. It is safe and will not give any production house or printing press font issues at production stage.

Regards.

    Zaid Al Hilali
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    Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
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    January 18, 2024

    As a 27 years designer, and someone who has been teaching Pre-Press standards as well as being a consultant for print press houses and publishing offices, I strongly recommend to keep the font as is ( you called it live) in the PDF so the PDF can be searchable since newspapers and magazines need it to be searchable. Besides, converting your fonts to outline will render your text to gain some weight ie. it becomes thicker, and PDF becomes bigger although this was an important matter a few years ago, however now, file size isn't that much of a big issue. 

    Converting all your text to outline in a large document such as a magazine will delay the processing at the RIP.

     

    Any smart designer shouldn't stick to an obsolete technology such as the AXT fonts, as Adobe products will not support it.

      Ashutosh_Mishra
      Ashutosh_Mishra
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      May 22, 2020

      Hi there,

       

      Sorry to hear about your experience. You mentioned that this is happening with Illustrator and Photoshop both apps. It could be a font issue as well. Have you tried with different Arabic fonts or just one? If it is a specific font, would you mind sharing the font information so that we can check it out? Please share version of OS as well.
      Looking forward to your response.

       

      Regards,

      Ashutosh

      Zaid Al Hilali
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      Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
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      January 18, 2024

      Kindly delete this post!!

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