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Electroscribe_2023
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August 15, 2019
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InDesign fails to render glyphs in Khmer font -- that work in Microsoft Word

  • August 15, 2019
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Have been asked to import text for the Cambodian translation of a fact sheet -- using the font Khmer OS_Content TTF.

Certain glyphs that do appear in Microsoft Word will NOT appear in Adobe InDesign CC 2015 for Windows or Adobe InDesign CC 2019 for Mac, They show up as dotted lines.

Have tried a number of paragraph and line import settings in Settings>Advanced Type>Default Composer including

  • Adobe World-Ready Single-line Composer
    Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer

Have also toggled off Missing Glyph Protection.

  • Protect While Typing
    Protect while applying fonts

to no avail.

Am pretty well stuck using INDD CC 2015 on a Windows machine using Windows 10 Enterprise.

Anyone know of a plugin or scripting routine  that would solve this problem, or a source for Khmer OS_Content that is compatible with Adobe applications?

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      Correct answer Nicole228651704m1l

      If you select Adobe Wordpress Paragraph composer (top, far right where the icon of the three lines are), it should be able to fix the missing Khmer glyphs.

       

       

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      Nicole228651704m1lCorrect answer
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      November 21, 2023

      If you select Adobe Wordpress Paragraph composer (top, far right where the icon of the three lines are), it should be able to fix the missing Khmer glyphs.

       

       

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        Nicole228651704m1l
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        December 26, 2024

        Oops--I think my phone did auto correct. If you select "Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer," it will fix the issue. 

        Jongware
        Community Expert
        JongwareCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        August 16, 2019

        InDesign started out as the flagship application for promoting and showcasing Adobe's new OpenType format (in collaboration with Microsoft). Sadly, this initial impetus and the driving knowledge has slowly bled from Adobe. Currently Microsoft is the leading company that drives the development of OpenType forward.

        If you want to get your Khmer text correctly in InDesign, save it as PDF from Word and place it as an image.

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        Electroscribe_2023Author
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        August 18, 2019

        Tried it in a newer versiion of InDesign -- the latest one (CCC 2019) and the particular character still dropped out.

        Joel Cherney
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        Joel CherneyCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        April 2, 2022

        Hi, were you able to resolve this?  I'm new to CC, but Khmer is the primary language I wanted to create for.  Guess it's good I find out now during my trial period.


        Abambo is 100% correct on this. The thread you've found about bugs in InDesign's handling of Khmer type shows a very specific bug in a seven-year-old version of InDesign with a very specific old font. There might be other, newer issues you encounter, depending on your familiarity with InDesign and the fonts and input methods you wish to use, but you won't encounter this one.

         

        (I mean, I assume you won't, as I did see this bug myself when I was handling Khmer in InDesign CC 2015, but I haven't seen it in years.)

        Marvest
        Marvest
        Inspiring
        August 16, 2019

        Can you post a sample so we can try it. Just copy paste.

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