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Many typesetters use Adobe InDesign to perform page layout for PDF production. It has been observed that Adobe InDesign CC 2022 (v. 17.1) as well as CC 2021 and CC 2020, fail to render a distinct group of Linear B characters: they are 𐀀 (U+10000), 𐀈 (U+10008), 𐀉 (U+10009), 𐀊 (U+1000A), and 𐀍 (U+1000D). The problem seems to be connected with Adobe’s World‘World-Ready Paragraph Composers’, which are used by default by typesetters producing PDF of Brill publications. The oldertwo Adobe Paragraph Composers: Adobe Paragraph Composer and the Adobe Single-line Paragraph Composer, render Composer render all Linear B characters correctly.

Furthermore, when importing text from either .docx or .txt (UTF-8) formats, 𐄐 (U+10110, AEGEAN NUMBER TEN) and 𐄒 (U+10112, AEGEAN NUMBER THIRTY) needed a manual application of the Noto Sans Linear B font (the underlying character codes are and remain correct).

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