Calligraphic Naskh Fonts

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Posted by: Serdar_80
         

Dear Sergey,

 

Microsoft doesn't support any type of justification alternates, Adobe doesn't support any type of cursive positioning, both of them don't support enhanced justification alternates, kasheeda alternates and base lookups.

 

In this case, so please (as kind of you) can you tell me 'How we can create usable classic calligraphic arabic naskh fonts'?!!

 

I hope Microsoft will support those soon:

1) All type of justification alternates

2) All type of kasheeda alternates

3) BASE table

4) A new glyph type CONNECTION glyphs which are not BASE nor are MARK, and which are not cared in context.

 

So we will be able to create calligraphic fonts.

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Posted by: Aref3
         

Hi, Bro

I am very sorry to say that the way microsoft and adobe are handling opentype, is getting us in to more and more trouble. Today only handful of programs even support opentype, and those who support, never works 100 % within the open type standard.   

Why cant ''the big bosses'' sit together again and define a standard for opentype rendering engine too?

I was having a nightmare when i created a qurani font that works 100 % correctly on wordpad, 10 % correctly on word 2003 and only 75 % correctly  in word 2007. All these programs were updated and using latest uniscribe engine!

What was suprising that all these softwares were from the same vendor: ''microsoft''. But giving differrent results, making a conclusion that feature of opentype is veryyyyy dark!

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Posted by: AzizMostafa1
         
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