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Diacritics Omitted in Arabic-Persian Text When Exporting to PDF in InDesign 19.5

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August 17, 2024
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Hello
In Arabic-persian text "diacritics" will be omitted on exporting to pdf with or without "enable lagacy..."

I enable this and test and then disabled this and quit and open and nothing resolved.

sample text: ( آشوبِ ) will export ( آشوب )

indesign 19.5 windows 11

Thanks

sak95456465Author

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It is not fix even in 20.5

until adobe fix it on future weeks or months or years, the solution is forget harfbuzz.

first go to preferences and advanced type and select "enable lebacy text..." then close indesign and start it then export your indesign file to idml and open this idml. what happned? you force indesign to reshape texts by old text shaping and problem solved. Thats it. thanks

sak95456465Author

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Thanks for marking as correct answer. unfortunatly by using this smethod you may see change in your layout even in same version of indesign. so be aware arabic users this bug is critical.

sak95456465Author

Known Participant

and please remove solved tag. Thanks

Zaid Al Hilali

Community Expert

I copied all text from @sak95456465 InDesign document then pasted it into a fresh InDesign document, I exported it to PDF, the problem still exists.

On the other hand, I pasted the copied text into Apple's Text Edit application, then copied it from there into a fresh InDesign document, and exported it to PDF, there were no issues, all diacritics appeared properly.

I don't know if I'm adding something useful here, however, I still feel that original InDesign document that @sak95456465 was/is working on is carrying issues within it, it could be due to the text coming from a bad source, or any other reason.

sak95456465Author

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Hello

continuing the previous topic this bug is not fixed even in version 22.02 and It is horrible because someone send me an indesign file and It is final and needs just some minor edit after that I export it to pdf this omiting is not clear but after printing 1000 books It will be disaster.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/diacritics-omitted-in-arabic-persian-text-when-exporting-to-pdf-in-indesign-19-5/m-p/14811515

sample file is attached

Thanks

indesign 22.02

windows 11

adobe_arabic.pdf

adobe_arabic.zip

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @sak95456465,

The bug is still under investigation, and the team is actively working on a fix, which should be delivered soon. In the meantime, I would recommend keeping an eye on updates through the UserVoice page here: UserVoice – Disappearing Punctuation Marks in Hebrew/Arabic.

I appreciate your patience, and I’ll update you if I hear any news! Let me know if you have any questions.

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Abhishek

sak95456465Author

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Hello

version 20.3 and this bug is not fixed. type is in the core of indesign and It seems arabc users are forgotten.

sak95456465Author

Known Participant

Hello

Unfortunately in v20.0 this issue is not resolved.

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hello @sak95456465,

Thank you for reporting the issue. We've checked with the product team and have a bug logged for the investigation. Please continue to upvote this UserVoice page: Fully justified Arabic text drops the final period of paragraph when kashidas are on – Adobe InDesign (https://adobe.ly/3YTvHQD) and add your feedback to help prioritize the issue. I will keep you posted if the product team needs any further details from you. Stay tuned to the UserVoice page for updates. We really appreciate your presence in the community.

Thanks,

Abhishek Rao