Issue with Incorrect Positioning of Arabic Diacritic in InDesign (Correct in MS Word)
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I'm encountering an issue with Arabic diacritics in Adobe InDesign. While working on Arabic text, I noticed that one of the diacritics is not positioned correctly in InDesign, though it appears perfectly in Microsoft Word. I've tried adjusting the font and settings, but the problem persists only in InDesign.
Has anyone faced a similar issue or knows how to resolve it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
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OS? Version (and localization) of InDesign? Which paragraph composer are you using?
Have you tried a different font altogether to see if the problem is actually in the font itself?
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Thank you for the reply!
I'm using Windows 11 and InDesign version 20.0 (Middle East version). The paragraph composer I'm using is the Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer.
I have tried various fonts. In some fonts, the diacritic positioning issue persists, while in others, it displays correctly. It seems the issue is font-specific but happens frequently enough to affect my workflow.
Let me know if there's anything else I should try or check!
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If font is the issue - you either need to find a "good" version - or use a different font?
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I don't work with right-to-left text at all so not much more I can suggest, especially since the problem seems to go away with some fonts. Next thing on my list would be to verify (by selecting the text) that the assigned language is indeed Arabic.
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hello
please type original arabic text here and what is the font?
Thanks
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Hi @Ashhad Kaka & @al-izzah_4948,
Thank you so much for sharing the details and the font file. I tried pasting your text in both InDesign and Word, and it looked quite similar to me. To better understand and investigate the issue, could you please share a sample Word file where the diacritic positions appear correct and also show how it looks once pasted into InDesign where you see the problem?
Additionally, I recommend updating your InDesign version 20 to the latest available, which is 20.4.1, and then testing if the issue still occurs.
If the files are confidential, you can share them with us privately via direct message using any public cloud service like Google Drive or Dropbox.
Looking forward to your update so we can help you further!
Abhishek

