Aref Rugaa (Google font) crashes InDesign

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March 26, 2021
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Hi

Painful situation. Out customer brand is based heavily on certain Google Font

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Aref+Ruqaa

Has been working years but now it somehow crashes the InDesign.

- Almost every time when I try to edit that font.

- Noticed it this week.

- Updated to lates InDesign version.

- Re-installed the font

- Cleared cache and preferences (Start InDesign, and then press Shift+Ctrl+Alt.)

Nothing works. Have to put staff into print so urgent help apreciated!

Thanks.

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L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Jannes,

posted your issue at the InDesign Prerelease forum and Barry, a user of this forum like me, tested the fonts on OS X and had crashes and freezes of InDesign 2020 and 2021 as well. However, Barry came up with a solution:

The downloaded and currently used version 1.002 of the Aref Rugaa font had some features that are not compatible with the current Adobe software. A new version was issued a few days ago that makes it compatible again, version 1.003. You can download this version from:

https://github.com/alif-type/aref-ruqaa/releases/tag/v1.003

There is also this information about one of the fixes they did in version 1.003:
"Restore ss01 feature and remove the its replacement cv01 feature, it broke the font on Adobe apps!"

( Don't ask me what this exactly means…)

I downloaded and tested version 1.003 of Aref Rugaa with InDesign 2021 and had no issues at all.

Case closed, I think…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

J

jannes37953968Author

Participant

This is it! Works like a dream again!

Thank you and everyone here.

***Have a beer on weekend***

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Jannes,

also tested InDesign 2020 with the font.

No issues so far. Editing worked! Where it crashed InDesign 2021 when the fonts were supplied with the Fonts folder in InDesign's application folder. Or I had a "ongoing, never ending" freeze of InDesign 2021 when I supplied the fonts with a Document fonts folder. I had to end InDesign's 2021 process in the Task Manager; did that after more than 5 minutes when InDesign was unresponsive.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

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