Adobe Telugu Font Issue in Indesign and word file

[img_4733]

Hi 

Plz check the screenshot below 

Some telugu letters not displaying properly in adobe telugu font highlighted in red colour.

Plz... Let me know any solution  for correcting this automatically 

Thank You

[Mike Witherell]

Are you saying it does not display correctly when used in InDesign? Or in the web page of fonts.adobe.com?

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Both in InDesign as well as in the web page of fonts. adobe.com. 
In preview mode the characters are showing correctly but in Telugu font preview characters missing. For example, see below screenshots. 

డ్రు The side curve is missing

[Anubhav M]

Hello @img_4733,

Thanks for sharing the details. Could you try switching to the Adobe World-Ready Paragraph composer in the Advanced Type Preferences and let us know if it helps?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav

[img_4733]

Hi Anubhav, 

Thanks for getting back. I have used the Adobe World-Ready Paragraph composer in the Advanced Type Preferences and checked,  still getting the same error. Plz check the screenshot below.

 

Thanking You

[Joel Cherney]

I believe that this may well be yet another HarfBuzz problem. 

Assuming that HarfBuzz is turned on (that means that the "Use legacy character composer" preference is unchecked), there aren't any type or composer OpenType settings in InDesign that will cause Adobe Telugu to render as the original poster expects. Turning HarfBuzz on and off once the text is in the document does not affect rendering.  I'm not a Telugu reader, at all, and so when I wind up in a situation like this I usually have to send my translation provider a screenshot like this one:

with a message like "Hey translator, is the fact that the right side curve missing in Adobe Telugu a font problem? Or is it a stylistic choice made by the type designer? How about the under-curve being pushed up onto the left on Nirmala? Fancy stroke on top of the Potti Sreeramulu, that's normal, right?"

Then I exported to RTF just to see what it looked like in MS Word. I adjusted the paragraph spacing a bit, then saved the RTF and closed Word. Due to work I was doing totally unrelated to these investigations into Adobe Telugu that I'm reporting here, I happened to sign out of Creative Cloud, restart, sign back in, and check the "Use legacy character composer" setting before starting a new document. At that time I re-imported that exported RTF and found that the roundtrip through MS Word had converted all of the Telugu text to Mallanna font. I reapplied paragraph styles and found this very odd behavior:

Worth noting here is that I couldn't generate this result consistently - sometimes it would render without the side-curve in Adobe Telugu, sometimes with. Sometimes all the text would disappear - still selectable with mouse or keyboard, just invisible.