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Kerning of ligatures in Arabic Script!
Posted by arifkarim in
20 Nov 2008 — 1:32pm
20 Nov 2008 — 1:32pm
I have a few urdu ligatures that I wanna kern automatically. Only problem is: I dont know how to do it! I have seen snaps of Aziz Mustafas ''Reyhan.otf''. Although he hasnt use many ligatures, still his kerning was good between words.... Thats why I am begging u professionals for some advice in kerning of several ligatures. I have following font editors installed: FontLab, FontCreator, Fontographer....
Thnx....................
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20 Nov 2008 — 6:15pm
What do you mean by "kern automatically"?
21 Nov 2008 — 6:07am
->What do you mean by “kern automatically”?
Bro, its simple: Automatic kerning is just like u kern latin alphabets in fontlab or fontographer.... Problem is I cant do the same thing for arabic/urdu ligatures... Any assistance?
21 Nov 2008 — 2:30pm
My guessing is that you don't set the directionality in RTL in the preview of Fontlab and it does it the wrong way.
29 Nov 2008 — 7:18am
Or maybe he just don't know how to use classes for kerning similar glyphs?