The latest adobe apps that support variable fonts doesn't support Arabic as the letters takes the isolated form without the basic Arabic features like initial, medial and final and so on
Is there any intention to support Arabic in the future ?
Here is the link of the original post I posted in adobe forums
The latest adobe apps that support variable fonts doesn't support Arabic as the letters takes the isolated form without the basic Arabic features like initial, medial and final and so on
Is there any intention to support Arabic in the future ?
The latest adobe apps that support variable fonts doesn't support Arabic as the letters takes the isolated form without the basic Arabic features like initial, medial and final and so on
The font you shared with me showed the same problem as in your first post up here when used it in latest Adobe applications. However, when I used it in older InDesign CS5, it worked well.
I'm not sure who generated this particular font, because I went and downloaded same font from Google directly and it worked fine even on latest Adobe applications. Now legally I wouldn't do this, but practically we could regenerate the font you shared using our tables to make it function well with latest Adobe applications.
What are the advantages of variable fonts any way?
the problem isn't the font itself it is in the adobe applications like Ps and Ai the support for arabic variable is not complete the font was just an example and the font itself is from the github page of google fonts
and of course the versions of the web page you mentioned will work fine because they are not variable fonts they are regular fonts
as for the advantages of variable fonts , actually it's a game changing technology you can have a full font family with all the wights and widths in a single file , another thing you can have the exact weight that want not like regular font you have to choose from light or bold or ... because it's variable you can choose a weight that's between light and bold because you have all the range in between
I created a simple variable font to show you the problem
here is the test of the same font in axis-praxis.org
One thing I'm not sure about which is why the font I downloaded from the font page directly worked in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign? While it didn't work for you?
the answer is easy you downloaded a regular fonts not variable ... they work on my pc too , the question is not about that at all , the variable version is the one that's not working and if you checked again in the first post , the screenshot shows the controls of the variable font
I can see what you're talking about using both Noto Sans Arabic as well as some flavors of Markazi Text. It does definitely appear better on Mac and I've logged a bug to look into this. At the time we added variable font enablement, there were no such fonts that supported Arabic. If you know of other fonts I should look into, please let me know.
When we first released variable fonts, there were none that had Arabic glyphs in them. Now, there are a few and the results are mixed -- on Mac, Markazi works just fine, but not so always on Windows. Noto Sans Arabic is problematic on both platforms. If you have additional variable fonts with Arabic glyphs, please share and I'll test them too. I have opened a bug on this issue and hopefully we'll get this resolved soon.
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