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Hi Sometimes designer insert glyph incorrectly, and wish to change glyph position without deleting it and open insert glyphs window to re-insert in the right position, I think the fastest way is by using drag and drop, this will give more flexibility to glyphs keyboard.. what is your opinion? Drag a...

Thank you very much Mr. Erwin.

Not at all, Great.. thank you Mr. Erwin

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I have notice some incorrect mark positions in Arabic text inside web test font window, i have correct it in the attached file.... thanks

I think so, nice idea Mr. Erwin, it would be more convenient.

Thanks Bhikkhu... Removing or reducing picture size, or adding bottom side bar.. will be solve this issue... hope to see that soon with next update... Cheers

Hello.. Because of too long names of some glyphs that belong to scripts like: (Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Kurdish, Persian...etc), Glyph name disappear inside Automatic Metrics Wizard, so the designer face a difficult to identify which type of forms are (init, medi, fina...etc), I suggest to add controls...

Great job Bhikkhu, beautiful font

Thanks Bhikkhu, I appreciate this.

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it is a great update, that will give more options to designers if they wish to use FontCreator format or the FAE syntax to edit OpenType layout feature code.
Thank you Mr. Erwin

Hi, I have release My First Complete Arabic Font by using FontCreator 13 exclusively here, also it included English glyphs, I Welcome feedback. the font is under SIL Open Font License OFL licence... the attachment compressed file include (fcp., ttf., otf., woff1., woff2., OFL licence). Thank you. Ga...

That is true the article belong to 1998, Very nice historical information about FontCreator Mr. Erwin, I like FontCreaton and consider it the powerful program especially in making Arabic Font, hope more and more evolved. sure the Akademy font need more work, because I was kept the original source de...

Thank you Mr. Erwin for your reply, I will check the advance width, reducing numbers of glyphs in this idea depends on manipulating the bearings and adjustment of shapes design like what they did in Arial Font, for example they remove the connection part from the right side of medial forms and Compe...

Arabic Arial: 1- It is have 126 Arabic Glyphs (I mean Arabic language used in Arabic country region) 2- Isolated Glyphs merged with Arabic Basic Glyphs* (two code points) 3- Final Glyphs = Arabic Basic Glyphs ... (Same Shapes Design) Except: alef-arab.fina, alefhamzaabove-arab.fina, alefmaddaabove-...

A valuable study by Yannis Haralambous about Simplification of the Arabic Script, he introduce Three Different Approaches and their Implementations, this idea belong to fifties he describe and discuss these projects and their implementations. I like the idea of making letters from components (graphi...