You know that InDesign doesn't support Arabic out of the box without some special tweaking, right?
http://www.thomasphinney.com/2009/01/adobe-world-ready-composer/

Cheers,

T

As far as Arabic Font/Text is concerned, there is no alternative to the Mother of All Softwares + plugins:
http://typophile.com/node/48495
As easy to use as frying an egg!
All the Best with Flowers

1. Free M$ + Adobe products?!
2. Freedom era or Chaos?!

I fully support open architecture solutions. The arabic font sector is highly deficient. However, the Arabic market dynamics don't really encourage developing 'open' type. I wonder what your marketing plans are.

Your design is quite nice, and I am personally very interested in the Ruq'a style. I think it is the ultimate in cursive handwriting. This arises from the exceptional economy in the letter forms and the exquisite balance between catenation and separation that is inherent in the Arabic script in general.

Ruq'a is also a strong and dynamic style that was useful in writing newspaper headlines. In my article here, I showed how print technology and the development of the Al-Harf Al-Jadeed font for the Linotype swept away Ruq'a from the headlines. Solutions like yours might lead the way for a Ruq'a comeback.

Please do proceed with the development of your font, and I hope you will find a solutoin for the InDesign compatibility soon.

Khalid

Oussama,
it looks like you probably have problem with the glyph alternates replacement. Try posting the question in the Typophile Build section, with a part of your code.

@froo @ John Hudson :

Many thanks. The font is tested with InD CS5 as displayed in the image.

The issue was solved and InD interact very well with the result. Actually, InD does not accept the multiplication of the same glyph in different cells but MS products say nothing for this multiplication.

I hope that I can propose the result very soon. :-)

Congratulations!
I hope your Roqa will be uploaded somewhere for free down like:
http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/Fonts/nafeesRiqa.html
Though I am more after text than headline fonts, I will try to combine the 2 to come out with a dynamic + unique roqa font for our Arabic Calligrapher.
As I always emphasize, Arabic fonts are useless unless made dynamic.
All the Best with Flowers

I would like to see one of these 2 words included in your samples:
لمحجوبون لمجموعون
I wonder how they will appear in the different aspects & weights: for headlines, for text and also in an extended version!
Thanking you and awaiting for the outcomes of the Fourth International Symposium for History of Printing and Publishing.

Hi, Aziz

This is what you asked before:

The Alternatives in Ruq'a - In traditional - is not so much, you only can use the ligatures and sometimes you have no choices to change it.

But still, There are several ways to handle the spaces, such as Kern.

Badr

Kerning : Manual or auto?!

We speak about opentype font, so,

Do you know an opentype font uses the manual kerning in simple text editors like MS Notepad or Mac Textpad ??

And what about MerEmad, does it??

@ Badr Oraby,

In MirEmad + QalamBartar, auto kerning is carried our for the high frequency lettergroups , but for the low frequency lettergroups , you can do manual kerning inside M$ Notepad, Wordpad, Word 2003-2010, IndesignCS5, PhotsShop + Illustrator + PagePlus X5 ++
God willing, both software will be available for Mac Users, by the mid of 2012.

You can do Auto Kerning as mentioned by John Hudson, but that is a fix-one-bug-create-more process, and I am afraid you keep answering the Roqa-thirsty fans with Work-in-Progress message, even after the Tenth Fourth International Symposium for History of Printing and Publishing.

Hoever you can do ONLY Manual Kerning + ONLY in IndesignCS5?!

The Choice is yours.