Using "New Aramaic" font in standard IND 2015
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My friends – this is a very specific topic only for those required to publish text with occasional Right-to-left scripts.
I have a text in MS word, using “New Aramaic” font. (originated probably here: https://assyrianschool.weebly.com/free-fonts.html)
it looks like this in Word:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bjsg9zvfsg3nah/Screenshot%202018-12-09%2009.56.53.png?dl=0
however, if imported to IND it gets garbled into this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2fd5zg6hjnh914l/Screenshot%202018-12-09%2010.04.42.png?dl=0Now I have the world ready composer set, the text is running right to left. I tried both docx and doc version (the same result)
My suspicion is that the font has incorrect mapping for its unicode table somewhere.So the question is whether anybody has struggled with this before and found a solution?
Any hint appreciated.Thanks
Tomas -
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Out of curiosity (wish I’d seen this first time around!), I downloaded that New Aramaic font linked above, and it shows up as a 44kb TrueType from 1990 (quite a small file size, but still potentially Unicode-compliant).
But Aramaic was only added to Unicode in v3.0 from 1999, so the font predates that.
And the glyphs in it appear to be in the Unicode Private Use Area, which is never a good sign for compatibility with InDesign.
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