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Anyone know how to get InDesign to support Tamil fonts properly? I'm either getting just Latin characters or partial Tamil without proper diacritics etc. Tried five different fonts, so that's not it.
- Maybe the fonts don't have the support or correct character mappings?
Many fonts don't even have normal diacritics anyway...******** - try the fonts in Ai, and see in the Glyphs palette if they have proper chars********
- I've tried Adobe and Google Tamil fonts, pretty sure they'd check that.i_monk
- Tamil glyphs visible, just not being used when I copy and paste the translation.
(InDesign has a Glyph palette too)i_monk - what grafician meant to say was he has absolutely no idea. also he's thinks you're an idiot for even asking.imbecile
- Try going into the Paragraph tool and click World-Ready Paragraph ComposerGnash
- Try to use paragraph composer as world ready https://community.ad…imbecile
- Already did that.i_monk
- I had the same issue with an Inuktituk fontGnash
- are you copy-pasting, or Importing the copy?Gnash
- C&P from a PDF.i_monk
- The glyphs show up in the font list, in the glyph palette, and I can insert them (one at a time) from the glyph palette, but gibberish comes out when pastingi_monk
- Tried with and without formatting/etc from Acrobat and ID's Clipboard handling settings.i_monk
- Even set up Tamil language support on the Mac itself. Nothing.i_monk
- @i_monk can you share some part of that text pls?********
- and yeah you need custom hyphenation for indian languages. but if the copy-pasta doesn't shows up its fucked somewhere between the font and the pasted glyph********
- Will it C&P into a MS word doc successfully?Gnash
- Nope. Guess this isn't an Adobe issue after all.i_monk
- Try opening the PDF in illy? if you haven't tried alreadyGnash
- Tried that, and opening it in Word. Just mangles it into Latin characters.i_monk
- what if the pdf source is fucked with the wrong character positions?********
- PDF > File / Properties menu >
see tamil font listed (bamini, tsc, latha etc)Gnash - try and find that font on the webs and install it, then open PDF and copy into wordGnash
- here https://danpla.githu…********
- restarting apps firstGnash
- my colleague just woke up, he said that pdf is fucked, you're going to need an ocr. like this: https://www.i2ocr.co…
(or that other one)******** - CIDFont+F1 through +F6i_monk
- his first q was what fonts does the acrobat reader shows for the pdf********
- i guess you already done with that. so the next was that acrobat converts some of these poorly designed fonts to images. (i guess he is saying that the oringal)********
- font is a crap image font, that's why you can't copy the real characters.********
- @i_monk sorry, u need to ocr it.********
- Okay, last idea from me...
Open your PDF in the Preview app, then 'export to PDF' maybe apple can fix the font issueGnash - CIDFonted pdf with non-latin characters won't fly.********
- https://blog.idrsolu…********
- OCR seems to be working! It's not perfect but I can work with it.
Yeah CID is just the compressed character subset.i_monk - Thanks stedi_monk
- AGAIN the fonts probably don't have the proper font mappings even if they have the correct characters. You will need to edit the font.********
- We Romanians do this all the time with fonts that don't map correctly for diacritics.********
- But yeah, it's not an easy fix.********
- This might help, we produced some Arabic documents last year and had to download the Arabic verison of InDesign to use their specific typographic systemIanbolton
- The OCR got it 90% of the way there. Some ligaures it couldn't recognize, but the glyphs were in the font, easily fixed.i_monk
- Maybe the fonts don't have the support or correct character mappings?