Hello;
I’ve been mangling alot with the program and I’m trying to do an Arabic font (because all the time I used to do latin-based fonts) as for a change now!
But the problem is that when I compare the mapping and the data in some originally Arabic fonts that I got from here and there, and I try to do almost the same thing in my new font, things don’t work out good!
I know FontCreator doesn’t show a test for the Arabic font or a Preview and shows letters separated as if they were latin, so usually I install the font partially and test it in my Charmap (Character Map).
I got so many problems and yet I don’t know how to start correctly!
These are some of the problems I faced:
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Isolted letters do not show correctly unless I assign the mapping from “Arabic” but not “Arabic presentation A or B.”
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Sometimes I assign a value for one of the characters like “BEH” and it happens that when I test it, it types or prints in charmap letter “BEH” other than the one I made! (Isolated form of course).
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If I want to make a new character I go usually to add glyph or character and from there I put my new glyph and set the mapping for that glyph (is this really the procedure?).
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In some Arabic fonts I see that some of them got a platform of “Microsoft Unicode BMP only” installed only…while others got also “Unicode 2…etc” installed also with the first. What’s the different between the two?
Finally, can anyone please give me the correct procedure to follow in this situation? Shall I leave all the other glyphs for the latin letters empty just like that?
Thanks!