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Greetings, Many thanks to the High-Logic team for their many improvements to OTD Preview over the past few weeks. I'm still trying to get the hang of OTD. Consider the attached comparison of a VOLT table and its import in OTD: substitution-table-VOLT.jpg substitution-table-OTD.jpg Questions: 1. How ...

Thank you, Erwin. Feel free to let me know if and when I can be of help in anything related to Arabic-script, RTL, etc.

Respect and thanks

We don't consider this a bug but a feature, as you can mix both LTR and RTL characters in the preview toolbar. Fair enough. But often during testing one doesn't need Unicode code points but only glyph names - /Baa.initial etc. Especially for a font with lots of alternates (calt, salt, ss<xx>, <cvxx...

Thanks, Bhikku, for your reply.

Normally I test from Preview Tool in OTDesigner.

Having your own layout engine is best, it means you have more control over -- and bear more responsibility for -) -- fixing bugs in Preview...

Thank you very much for the prompt reply. That is a workaround and it works. See the example I gave in the original email: /Baa.initial/Siin.medial/Miim.final So I would have to type, e.g. ب /Baa.initial/Siin.medial/Miim.final The workaround works, but is a bit inelegant and constitutes at least a b...

Greetings, In Preview Tool (F8): Which OpenType layout engine does FC employ to interpret the GSUB/GPOS tables? Uniscribe? Harfbuzz? OTLS? OTComp? Does FC roll its own? The question is important because some tools - like HarfBuzz - are quite buggy when it comes to processing individual lookups in lo...

Greetings! This is my first post to the forums. Have just purchased FC Professional and am enjoying it. FEATURE REQUEST: The Preview Tool (F8) has bidi support for entering utf-8 in the editing field: Typing an Arabic-script string in the editing field gives a bidi-correct result in the view field (...