Problem with Urdu/ Arabic font display in motion 3

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Problem with Urdu/ Arabic font display in motion 3

Hi,

I am having difficulty using urdu/ arabic fonts on motion 3... basically what happens is that which ever fonts that I have installed in the font book that i try to use they do not display correctly what happens is that what ever words that i type are displayed as separate character for instance if I want to write جیت instead of displaying that like that it displays it like this 'ج ی ت' does anyone know of a way that can be corrected as making pictures out of them in photoshop and animating that in motion is a nightmare and I am already running late on deadline...

Any help would highly be appreciated...

regards,
Jibran

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 23, 2009 8:50 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Dec 23, 2009 9:17 AM in response to Jibran Jawaid

I am having difficulty using urdu/ arabic fonts on motion 3... basically what happens is that which ever fonts that I have installed in the font book that i try to use they do not display correctly

Do you have this problem with the font Geeza Pro which comes with OS X? In general for Arabic you must use a Mac font -- Windows Arabic fonts that you download from someplace will not connect the characters.

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/TypingArabic.html

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Answer 2

Dec 23, 2009 9:38 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I was doing some researching and found out the AAT fonts work on the mac properly but I have found only two that display the words properly but dont look professional... I want to use Nafees Nastaleeq but that isn't working and i can't find the AAT copy of that and also i cant find a website that has a selection of Urdu AAT fonts...

If you know of any such website please help out...

Thanks

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Tom Gewecke

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Dec 23, 2009 10:35 AM in response to Jibran Jawaid

I want to use Nafees Nastaleeq but that isn't working and i can't find the AAT copy of that and also i cant find a website that has a selection of Urdu AAT fonts...

They don't exist. As far as I know it is just not possible to do nastaliq in Motion. See these articles for info:

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-nastaliq-font-for-pro-arabic-script.html
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2008/11/typing-urdu.html

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Answer 4

Dec 23, 2009 11:52 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thank you for your help...

here is a link where if you need some mac fonts they are available and they look pretty close to nastaleeq...

http://wiki.irmug.org/index.php/XSeries2

There is also this application developed specifically for macs called nastaleeq nizami

http://pakdata.com/products/nastaleeq-nizami

havn't used that as yet but will be looking into it as i have asked them if there fonts are supported in pro apps... so if the answer is yes then problem solved...

thank you for your help

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Answer 5

Tom Gewecke

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Dec 23, 2009 12:10 PM in response to Jibran Jawaid

here is a link where if you need some mac fonts they are available and they look pretty close to nastaleeq...

http://wiki.irmug.org/index.php/XSeries2

Thanks. I think those are also reachable via the link given in the Typing Arabic note:

http://www.redlers.com/downloadfont.html

There is also this application developed specifically for macs called nastaleeq nizami

http://pakdata.com/products/nastaleeq-nizami

The references to postscript and the obsolete (OS 9 only) Aldus Pagemaker make me think this app is pre-Unicode and most likely not usable for the purpose you intend. But worth looking into, let us know what you find out.

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