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I've been poking away at it for a while, but I can't get it to work yet. Like Peter, I can get it render correctly in other fonts, and I can get partway there if I manually rekey it (laboriously, because I really know very little about Kannada) but I can't get the Shree fonts to work in ID as they do elsewhere.
Could you confirm for me, raghugada, that this is what it's supposed to look like? If I'm wrong, could you post a screenshot of correct display?
@Joel – my guess here is it should look like this:
Just opened the provided docx file in TextEdit app without installing the ttf font.
The screenshot is showing a substitute font in TextEdit.
InDesign (with the right font installed SHREE0850.TTF) is showing 4 characters (or glyphs) for the contents of the first selectable "entity":
And also 4 charcaters (or glyphs) for the contents of the second "entity":
Unfortunately not all Unicode codes are visible in the Info panel. And that entity seems to be one "word". Don't know, if using the term "word" here makes any sense.
I wanted to know, what's going on and duplicated every single "character" of the two "words" or "entities" to a different text frame:
Still don't know what's going wrong, but maybe you can make something out of this.
How did I duplicated the single characters? By scripting in ExtendScript/JavaScript. I selected one "entity" (is it a word?) and ran the following script:
var myDoc = app.documents[0];
var mySelChars = app.selection[0].characters.everyItem().getElements();
for(var n=0;n<mySelChars.length;n++){
mySelChars
.duplicate(
LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING,
myDoc.pages[0].
textFrames.add({
geometricBounds:[0,0,"50mm","60mm"]
}).
insertionPoints[0]
);
};
Uwe
Possibly irrelevant observation:
The OpenType features are all linked to the script "Kannada", but not to a particular language. How does InDesign select a script engine? Based on the Unicode values of the used characters, perhaps? This font seems to be unsure about its own encoding; my font viewer reports conflicting names vs. unicodes. The Double Danda, for example, has the proper Unicode U+0965, but in this font it has the name "u0CAE".
On my Computer, Mac OS X 10.10, InDesign CC 2014 it look like this without changing anything, except bringing the font into the Document fonts folder aside the original InDesign file:
Can you show us, how it looks like on your computer and where you have installed the fonts?
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