Arabic text engine: keep letter shaping when converting to outlines
When Arabic text is converted to outlines in Illustrator, the letter shaping occasionally breaks on ligatures, and copy-pasting shaped text from InDesign into Illustrator still loses joining in some fonts. A more reliable Middle Eastern text engine, with a shaping check before outlining, would save a lot of manual rework for designers producing Arabic signage and transport guides.
Most of my Arabic layout work is for public information posters — timetables, tariffs and wayfinding.
A preflight warning when a glyph would lose its contextual form would be a small but valuable addition.
John Reed
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Would you mind sharing some test files, John? The team would benefit from having them.
You can either share them here publicly (if you are OK with it), or send to sharewithai@adobe.com (mention this report’s link then: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/51844002). Thanks!
