I have two stylistic sets for two vowel systems.
On FontCreator everything looks fine, But on InDesign the vowels appears on wrong positioning.
On FontCreator:
On InDesign:
Thanks for your message, and great to hear you’re working with stylistic sets!
FontCreator 14 already offers robust OpenType support, but version 15 comes with numerous improvements, including better handling of complex scripts and OpenType features. While the shaping engine in FontCreator 15 has been improved to display text more accurately—especially with regard to the processing order of lookups—this only affects how things are shown inside FontCreator, not how the exported font behaves.
Since InDesign has a history of rendering issues with complex fonts, it’s a good idea to verify where the problem originates. Please try the Test Web Font feature in FontCreator, which previews the font in your web browser. If the vowels are positioned correctly there, it’s likely an InDesign-specific issue.
If you decide to upgrade and still see problems, feel free to share the font and setup details—we’ll be happy to take a closer look.
Thank you for the answer. As WebFont it works fine, but not not InDesign.
The upgrade price is too high for me right now.
Thanks for checking that!
Since the font works fine as a web font, this confirms the issue is most likely with how InDesign handles complex OpenType features. That said, it’s possible that more recent versions of FontCreator export fonts in a way that improves compatibility with InDesign, thanks to various under-the-hood changes and refinements.
I understand the upgrade cost can be a hurdle—no pressure, of course—but if you ever reconsider, feel free to reach out. And if you continue running into issues, don’t hesitate to share a sample font so we can see if there’s a workaround or font-side adjustment that might help.
This isn’t a problem with InDesign. InDesign has options for overriding font settings and controlling diacritics, but they vary from language to language. See the text settings.
You’re right that InDesign offers various options for controlling diacritics and shaping behavior, and it’s always good to explore those. However, in this case, since the font renders correctly in the web browser using FontCreator’s Test Web Font feature, it suggests that the font itself is behaving properly and the issue may be related to how InDesign is interpreting or applying the OpenType features.
If you have a specific example or steps to reproduce the behavior in InDesign, that would be really helpful to better understand what’s going on.
InDesign is not currently installed on my computer. However, in the text settings for the Middle East version, you can override the font settings and raise and lower diacritics. Sorry, I didn’t attach any images because the program isn’t installed. Maybe in the future.
I succeeded to solve the error by duplicating the vowels and give seperate anchor to each one.
Glad to hear you managed to find a solution.