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JB_FFM
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August 26, 2022
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OpenType features / horizontal possition of special character (accents, nikkud etc)

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OpenType features / horizontal possition of special character (accents, nikkud etc)

I have an issue using a OpenType-Font (koren siddur from masterfont; bought the font from a regular distributer). It is a hebrew font and I has special characters for vowels/nikudim (sort of like accents in latin fonts, little more complex).

 

Now these character do place wrong horizontaly. They used to place correct in an earlier version I think (I don't use this too often). It does not seem to be an issue of the font as they do place horizontaly correct in LibreWriter. Other more simple hebrew font do work correctly as you can see with the example.

 

I tried various setting of the character or paragraph dialogue.

 

Anybody any hint or idea how to fix this?

 

I use: Adobe Photoshop Version: 23.5.0 20220809.r.669 0e07917 x64

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JB_FFMAuthor
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September 5, 2022

Great "help" from @CShubert just enforcing your Community Rules and locking other Postings. One cannot edit Postings oder change the subject, e.g. to Bug from Discussion. Hence you may want to spend some of you "great" effort on those issues or my question. However all you did is not help me at all. Poor service by a company's official - sorry.

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OpenType features / horizontal possition of special character (accents, nikkud etc)

I have an issue using a OpenType-Font (koren siddur from masterfont; bought the font from a regular distributer). It is a hebrew font and I has special characters for vowels/nikudim (sort of like accents in latin fonts, little more complex).

 

Now these character do place wrong horizontaly. They used to place correct in an earlier version I think (I don't use this too often). It does not seem to be an issue of the font as they do place horizontaly correct in LibreWriter. Other more simple hebrew font do work correctly as you can see with the example.

 

I tried various setting of the character or paragraph dialogue.

 

Anybody any hint or idea how to fix this?

 

I use: Adobe Photoshop Version: 23.5.0 20220809.r.669 0e07917 x64


By @JB_FFM

 

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JB_FFMAuthor
Participating Frequently
September 5, 2022

Photoshop did render this font correctly in an earlier version (I fortunately do not know which version this was). So to me this looks like a bug in Photoshop. Maybe @CShubert gonna look at this issue and not only lock any post?

VinodBalakrishnan
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VinodBalakrishnanCommunity Manager
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September 7, 2022

@ktaki thanks for your tip. Switching to EU/Asia does not really help as I need Right-to-left (RTL) for the Hebrew. RTL is only available with World-Layout (I use Windows).

 

I found the old file and copied the Text-Layer into a new document. As long as I don't touch the text that specific text is ok. However if I edit the text the vowels/nikudim are placed wrong as with a new text layer. I attached a file with all the text layers - may this helps (?).

Kind regards

JB


@JB_FFM I did try your test  document with couple of Open Type fonts, none of them are giving an error. Photoshop need all all the OpenType feature tables to position the marks at the right position ( mkmk, mark...etc.), please check whether the font foundary had updated this font with all needed OpenType tables.  
Still, you might be able to move around the diacritic marks using diacritic positioning feature in Photoshop.                            




-Vinod Balakrishnan

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