Tabs in Arabic text move weight declaration to the wrong place
When placing an Arabic weight statement (e.g. "13g") followed by a tab and a percentage (e.g. "19%"), the weight declaration ("g" or "mg") moves to the percentage when exporting to pdf. Only when setting PDFX/1a:2001 is selected the output is correct. But this setting removes all layers and flattens transparencies so it's not very useful.
A workaround is to place a space after the tab (so on the left side since this is a right to left language).
See screen shot in attachment. On top = InDesign file, bottom = pdf created from this file using PDFX/4. The top line in the Indesign file has no space after the tab, resulting in a wrong placement of the "غ" (= Arabic "g") as marked red in the screen shot.
Sample file : https://www.dropbox.com/s/15db51rlwen8ehg/SFDA-test.indd?dl=0
Koen Bats
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Thanks for reporting the issue. We are looking into it
-Aman
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Zaid Al Hilali
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I tested on Mac OSX 10.14 and InDesign CC 2019 (v.14.0.1) and just like Koen mentioned, the figures displays well in InDesign, but upon exporting to PDF the figures shifts its position!
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Uwe Laubender
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Also did a test with InDesign CS6 version 8.1.0 on the same Windows 10 machine.
I see the same bugs. No problem with export to PDF/X-1a, moving glyphs with export to PDF/X-4.Regards,
Uwe Laubender
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Uwe Laubender
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Hi together,
I can confirm this bug with my German InDesign version CC 2019 14.0.1.209 on Windows 10.
See this discussion at Adobe InDesign Forum:Arabic weight statements jump to the wrong side in the table when exporting pdf
koenraad.bats@ds-n.com Feb 11, 2019
https://forums.adobe.com/message/10923322#10923322See into the screenshots of my results here:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/10923640#10923640I also tested the PDF/X-4 export preset without using layer export. This also failed.
Only export to PDF/X-1a did it right.Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )