Poor rendering in Adobe CC applications

[simoncozens]

Gulzar will render poorly in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. This is, unfortunately, not our fault - it is a problem with Adobe's shaping engine which also affects fonts such as Noto Nastaliq. Adobe Photoshop CC 2022 now uses Harfbuzz as its shaping engine, so this now works correctly:

Hopefully the other CC applications will also be upgraded to using Harfbuzz soon. In the meantime, if you see broken connections or incorrect shaping... all I can say is, I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do to fix it; it's Adobe's bug, please contact them.

(Keeping this issue open to say that we know about this bug, and as a way to track any progress that Adobe makes.)

[devosb]

Does enabling Harfbuzz in InDesign work any better than your example above? After enabling Harfbuzz, I find I need to force InDesign to redraw the text. The easiest way I found to do this is to switch to Bold or Italic, since those have keyboard shortcuts, but for this font (which only has Regular) changing the text size should also force a redraw.

[khaledhosny]

Illustrator seems to be good now, I believe it quietly switched to HarfBuzz (at least for Arabic script).

The InDesign thing does not enable HarfBuzz for Arabic script.

[behdad]

InDesign from October 2023 release has also switched to HarfBuzz (by default).